On April 6, the WordPress plugin XML Sitemaps (Google XML Sitemaps) was closed on WordPress’ plugin directory. The only information given was this vague message:
This plugin has been closed as of April 6, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review. [Read more]
In reviewing reports of vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins we often find that there are reports for things that don’t appear to be vulnerabilities. For more problematic reports we release posts detailing why the vulnerability reports are false, but there have been a lot of that we haven’t felt rose to that level. In particular are items that are not outright false, just the issue is probably more accurately described as a bug. For those that don’t rise to level of getting their own post we now place them in a weekly post when we come across them.
The report of a claimed cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google XML Sitemaps states: [Read more]
For our twelfth security review of a plugin based on the voting of our customers, we reviewed the plugin Google XML Sitemaps.
If you are not yet a customer of the service you can currently try it free for your first month and then start suggesting and voting on plugins to get security reviews after your first payment for the service. For those already using the service that haven’t already suggested and voted for plugins you can start doing that here. [Read more]