One of the really unfortunate things about the security issues related to WordPress plugins is how often people on the WordPress side of things are actually actively making things worse. Just yesterday we ran into another example, which at best shows they are engage in misguided behavior and are unable to work effectively with others who are actually trying to improve security.

On Saturday a thread was started on the WordPress Support Forum with a claim that a vulnerability in the plugin WooCommerce Product Addons (N-Media WooCommerce PPOM) was being exploited: [Read more]