From time to time a vulnerability is fixed in a plugin without the discoverer putting out a report on the vulnerability and we will put out a post detailing the vulnerability so that we can provide our customers with more complete information on the vulnerability.
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From time to time a vulnerability is fixed in a plugin without the discoverer putting out a report on the vulnerability and we will put out a post detailing the vulnerability so that we can provide our customers with more complete information on the vulnerability.
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One of the things that we appear to uniquely do in compiling data on vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins is that is that we fully review and test out vulnerabilities when adding them to our data set. That means that unlike other sources we won’t falsely tell people that an unfixed vulnerability has been fixed. It also means that we don’t include false reports of vulnerabilities in our data. One of the things that we do to make sure we exclude false reports, but don’t miss out including vulnerabilities even if the reports are inaccurate, is by writing up the details of false reports, which helps to make sure we have fully review things before making a determination on a report.
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From time to time a vulnerability is fixed in a plugin without the discoverer putting out a report on the vulnerability and we will put out a post detailing the vulnerability so that we can provide our customers with more complete information on the vulnerability.
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From time to time a vulnerability is fixed in a plugin without the discoverer putting out a report on the vulnerability and we will put out a post detailing the vulnerability so that we can provide our customers with more complete information on the vulnerability.
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From time to time a vulnerability is fixed in a plugin without the discoverer putting out a report on the vulnerability and we will put out a post detailing the vulnerability so that we can provide our customers with more complete information on the vulnerability.
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From time to time a vulnerability is fixed in a plugin without the discoverer putting out a report on the vulnerability and we will put out a post detailing the vulnerability so that we can provide our customers with more complete information on the vulnerability.
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Recently the web scanner service Detectify has been vaguely disclosing minor vulnerabilities in a number of WordPress plugins. It seems like they are aware that they could notify the developers of these, but usually haven’t been doing it. One of the more recent batch was an “Authenticated XSS” vulnerability in the plugin Special Text Boxes.
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While looking in to what turned out be a false report of a vulnerability in the plugin Simple Events Calendar, we noticed there is a cross-site request forgery (CSRF)/cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the plugin.
When the plugin’s admin page is requested, the function that generates that page checks if a new event has been submitted with the request using the following code (in the file /simple-events-calendar.php): [Read more]
From time to time a vulnerability is fixed in a plugin without the discoverer putting out a report on the vulnerability and we will put out a post detailing the vulnerability so that we can provide our customers with more complete information on the vulnerability.
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