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12 Aug 2019

Exploitation of Simple 301 Redirects Connected Plugin is Another Reminder of How Our Service Keeps You Ahead of WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

When we say that our service provides the best data on vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins you are using that isn’t just a marketing slogan. That is something that is based on us continually comparing what we are doing to others and also continually looking at how we can improve. An improvement that is just over a week old already has paid off in terms of our customers being warned well ahead of others about a vulnerability now being exploited in the plugin Simple 301 Redirects – Addon – Bulk CSV Uploader.

Yesterday we had a lot of traffic coming to our website for content we have on a plugin related to that Simple 301 Redirects, which would usually indicates something security related is occurring with it. Yet early last year we did a security review of the plugin and only found one minor issue among the things we checked for, so at least at that time it was rather secure. Monitoring we do and other information pointed to what was going on, as we had what looked to be a hacker probing for usage of the plugin Simple 301 Redirects – Addon – Bulk CSV Uploader on our website by requesting this file: [Read more]

19 Jan 2018

WordPress Plugin Security Review: Simple 301 Redirects

For our eighteenth security review of a WordPress plugin based on the voting of our customers, we reviewed the plugin Simple 301 Redirects.

If you are not yet a customer of the service you can currently sign up for the service for half off and then start suggesting and voting on plugins to get security reviews. For those already using the service that haven’t already suggested and voted for plugins to receive a review, you can start doing that here. You can use our tool for doing limited automated security checks of plugins  (now accessible through a WordPress plugin of its own) to see if plugins you are using have possible issues that would make them good candidates to get a review. You can also order a review of a plugin separately from our service. [Read more]