One of the ways we help to improve the security of WordPress plugins, not just for our customers of our service, but for everyone using them, is our proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities. Through that we caught a restricted file upload vulnerability in the brand new plugin GA Top Posts.

The plugin registers the function ga_save_settings() to be accessible through WordPress AJAX functionality to those logged in to WordPress as well as those not logged in: [Read more]