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9 Dec 2021

Wordfence’s Odd Takeaways From a Situation Involving a Very Insecure Plugin

Yesterday the WordPress focused security company Wordfence disclosed a fixed vulnerability in the WordPress plugin RegistrationMagic. The vulnerability sounds concerning:

This flaw made it possible for unauthenticated attackers to login as any user, including administrative users, on an affected site as long as a valid username or email address was known to the attacker and a login form created with the plugin existed on the site. [Read more]

2 Jan 2018

What Happened With WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities in December 2017

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Here is what we did to keep those are already using our service secure from WordPress plugin vulnerabilities during December (and what you have been missing out on if you haven’t signed up yet): [Read more]

18 Dec 2017

Lack of Due Diligence by the WPScan Vulnerability Database and WPCampus Lead to False Claim That WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Was Fixed

We are big believers in having the full details of vulnerabilities, whether they are in WordPress plugins or other software, be disclosed in most instances. That isn’t because that makes our work of compiling data on ones in WordPress plugins easier, but because we see the positive impact that has, as well as the more often emphasized negative impact. One of the important reasons for doing that is that we often find vulnerabilities that were supposed to have been fixed have only been partially fixed or not fixed at all. With more details it makes it easier for others to check to make sure the vulnerability has been fully fixed.

What is important to keep in mind though is that just releasing those details doesn’t mean that they will be checked and any unfixed vulnerabilities will be caught. When it comes to WordPress plugins, that is one of quite a few things that we seem to be the only ones doing. You wouldn’t know that by claims that people make about us, for example in a recent review of the companion for a plugin, which was less a review of the plugin and more someone just bashing us, they wrote: [Read more]