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3 May 2019

Closures of Very Popular WordPress Plugins, Week of May 3

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 four of those plugins were closed and two have yet to have been reopened. [Read more]

16 Oct 2017

Is This Another Case of a Malicious Takeover of a WordPress Plugin?

In our previous post we noted how we had found that the plugin Facebook Like Box had recently had a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) related vulnerability fixed. In looking over what else had recently been done with the plugin we noticed in the previous release one of the changelog entries was “Fixed Security Bugs”.

Looking at the changes made in that version several pieces of code that had been removed stood out. At first we noticed code another CSRF related vulnerability, this time the CSRF vulnerability could lead to an arbitrary file upload vulnerability (in the file /cardoza_facebook_like_box.php): [Read more]

16 Oct 2017

Vulnerability Details: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)/Settings Change Vulnerability in Facebook Like Box

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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