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Plugin Security Scorecard Grade for Posts in Page

Checked on September 20, 2024
C

See issues causing the plugin to get less than A+ grade

5 Jul 2019

Closures of Very Popular WordPress Plugins, Week of July 5

While we already are far ahead of other companies in keeping up with vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins (amazingly that isn’t an exaggeration), in looking in to how we could get even better we noticed that in a recent instance were a vulnerability was exploited in a plugin, we probably could have warned our customers about the vulnerability even sooner if we had looked at the plugin when it was first closed on the Plugin Directory instead of when the vulnerability was fixed (though as far as we are aware the exploitation started after we had warned our customers of the fix). So we are now monitoring to see if any of the 1,000 most popular plugins are closed on the Plugin Directory and then seeing if it looks like that was due to a vulnerability.

This week one of those plugins was closed and has been reopened. [Read more]

13 Feb 2017

Authenticated Local File Inclusion (LFI) Vulnerability in Posts in Page

One of the things we do to make sure our customers have the best data on vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins is to monitor hacking attempts on our websites. Through that we recently came across a request for a file, /wp-content/plugins/posts-in-page/assets/posts_in_page_help_view.php, from the plugin Posts in Page.

Nothing in that file looks like it could be exploited, so it looks like that request was instead probing for usage of the plugin. In looking over the rest of the code of the plugin we did find one vulnerability, that might be of more interest to hackers with the recent exploitation of a vulnerability in WordPress 4.7.0 and 4.7.1 that allowed an attacker to modify posts. [Read more]