Yesterday we detailed an arbitrary file upload vulnerability we had noticed had previously been in the plugin LearnPress through a check being run over changes being made to WordPress plugins as part of our proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities to see if that check might be something that we could add to our Plugin Security Checker, which is a tool that allows anyone to see if there are possible security issues in plugins that could use further investigation. After finding that it identified that issue in LearnPress we added the check to the Plugin Security Checker and then ran the plugin through to make sure the check was properly implemented. When we did that we found that the tool was flagging a number of other possible issues. We happened to take a look at one of the issues and find that the plugin allows writing arbitrary content to a file, which could be, say, combined with a local file inclusion (LFI) vulnerability to cause malicious code to run.

This vulnerability is yet another good example of where our Plugin Security Checker and someone knowledgeable of security reviewing its results can come in handy, as that vulnerability has existed in the plugin since the first version, which was released three and half years ago. If you are a paying customer of our service you can suggest/vote for plugins to receive a security review that includes checking over any issue identified by the tool or you can order the same type of review separately that will also included reviewing the results of the tool. [Read more]