One of the little understood realities of security issues with WordPress plugins is that insecurity of WordPress plugins is not evenly spread across them. Instead, many developers are properly securing their plugins and others get them properly secured when alerted they haven’t done that, while others either are unable or unwilling to properly secure their plugins. That includes situations where developers have introduced new serious vulnerabilities that are substantially similar to vulnerabilities that they know have been exploited in their plugins.

In situations where we become aware of developers who have shown that inability or unwillingness to properly secure their plugin, we are releasing advisories to warn customers of our service and the wider WordPress community of the risk of utilizing those developers’ plugins. In addition to checking those posts on our website for information on those advisory, we provide access to the information in several other forms. That includes through the companion plugin for our service, even when not using the service, as well as through a web browser extension and through separate data accessible from our website. [Read more]