One way we help to improve the security of WordPress plugins, not just for customers of our service, but for everyone using them, is our proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities. Through that, we caught one of those vulnerabilities, an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in a brand new WordPress plugin, Propeller Ecommerce. That type of vulnerability would allow a hacker, among other things, to run arbitrary code on the website.

We now are also running all the plugins used by our customers through that on a weekly basis to provide additional protection for them. [Read more]