False Vulnerability Report: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Featured Image Resize
As part of our cataloging the vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins for our service we come across false reports of vulnerabilities from time to time. So that others don’t spend their time looking over these as well, we post our findings on them. The data on these false reports is also included in our service’s data.
Earlier today a thread was started on the WordPress Support Forum claiming that plugin Featured Image Resize contained a SQL injection vulnerability. Between us being notified of the thread and when went to check over things, half the message was removed. It isn’t clear if was removed by the poster or silently removed by a forum moderator (they do some strange stuff along those lines), whichever it was it causes a problem, as what was removed makes it easy to see that the vulnerability doesn’t exist. [Read more]