Back in August through our proactively monitoring for evidence of some high risk vulnerabilities when changes are made to WordPress plugins we found that the plugin WP Post Popup contained an arbitrary file viewing vulnerability. That was subsequently fixed. Through that same monitoring we found that the vulnerability had returned to the plugin.

The only difference from last time is that file the vulnerability was now in is named /public/partials/wp-post-modal-public-proxy.php. [Read more]

We recently started proactively monitoring for evidence of some high risk vulnerabilities when changes are made to WordPress plugins and if we had more customers we could expand the proactive monitoring to more types of vulnerabilities. For the first time we have found an arbitrary file viewing vulnerability through this, which is  a type of vulnerability that is up there with the most likely to have exploit attempts. What is concerning about the vulnerability we found in the plugin WP Post Popup is how obvious the issue is and yet it had yet to be noticed.

In the file /public/includes/proxy.php the first code was: [Read more]