We recently started proactively monitoring for evidence of some high risk vulnerabilities when changes are made to WordPress plugins and if we had more customers we could expand the proactive monitoring to more types of vulnerabilities. One of the types of vulnerabilities we are looking for are PHP object injection vulnerabilities since those are likely to be exploited if hackers become aware of them. Through that we came across a PHP object injection vulnerability in the plugin Leaky Paywall, which permits implementing a paywall on a website.

That a plugin used for business purposes has a serious vulnerability is all too common in our experience and is good reminder of the value of getting a security review of plugins that business can make a lot of sense. Through our service, paying customers can suggest and vote for plugins to have a review done. We also recently introduced the option to purchase the same type of review for a plugin of your choice. [Read more]