One way we help to improve the security of WordPress plugins, not just for our customers of our service, but for everyone using them, is our proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities. Through that, we caught a less serious variant of one of those vulnerabilities, an authenticated arbitrary file deletion vulnerability, in the plugin Smart Grid-Layout Design for Contact Form 7 (CF7 Smart Grid Design Extension).

The possibility of this vulnerability is also flagged by our Plugin Security Checker, so you can check plugins you use to see if they might have similar issues with that tool. [Read more]