As part of the ongoing situation between Matt Mullenweg and the WordPress community, there has increased concern about various aspects of WordPress. One area of concern is the continued ability to get updates for WordPress software from the WordPress update infrastructure. That led to the release of a new plugin, AspireUpdate, as part of a larger project to provide alternative infrastructure, AspirePress. As part of our focus on supporting efforts to reform WordPress, we decided to do a security review of the plugin.

If you want a security review of plugins you use, when you become a paying customer of our service, you can start suggesting and voting on plugins to get security reviews from us. For those already using the service that haven’t already suggested and voted for plugins to receive a review, you can start doing that here. You can use our tool for doing limited automated security checks of plugins to see if plugins you are using have possible issues that would make them good candidates to get a review. You can also order a review of a plugin separately from our main service. [Read more]