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Tag Archives: Comprehensive Google Map Plugin

21 Dec 2018

Closures of Very Popular WordPress Plugins, Week of December 21

While we already are far ahead of other companies in keeping up with vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins (amazingly that isn’t an exaggeration), in looking in to how we could get even better we noticed that in a recent instance were a vulnerability was exploited in a plugin, we probably could have warned our customers about the vulnerability even sooner if we had looked at the plugin when it was first closed on the Plugin Directory instead of when the vulnerability was fixed (though as far as we are aware the exploitation started after we had warned our customers of the fix). So we are now monitoring to see if any of the 1,000 most popular plugins are closed on the Plugin Directory and then seeing if it looks like that was due to a vulnerability.

This week three of those plugins were closed and two of those have yet to be reopened. [Read more]

17 Dec 2018

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)/Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Comprehensive Google Map Plugin

Yesterday one of the 1,000 most popular WordPress plugins in the Plugin Directory, Comprehensive Google Map Plugin, was closed. No reason has been given for that.

The plugin does display this message “Attention: the development and maintenance of the “Comprehensive Google Map Plugin” has been discontinued!”, so that might explain the closure. In taking a look over the plugin though we found a fairly obvious security issue and it looks like there are other vulnerabilities in the latest version. [Read more]