One of the ways we help to improve the security of WordPress plugins, not just for our customers, but for everyone using them, is the proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities. Through that we caught a vulnerability a plugin with 10,000 installs (according to wordpress.org), Ultimate CSV Importer, that could allow an attacker to cause someone logged in as Administrator to fully disable the website just by getting them to access a page the attacker control’s (say with a link in a comment). With non-default settings the vulnerability could be exploited users with the Author or Editor role, or by getting them to access a page controlled by an attacker.

Due to the moderators of the WordPress Support Forum’s continued inappropriate behavior we are full disclosing vulnerabilities in protest until WordPress gets that situation cleaned up, so we are releasing this post and then only trying to notify the developer through the WordPress Support Forum. You can notify the developer of this issue on the forum as well. Hopefully the moderators will finally see the light and clean up their act soon, so these full disclosures will no longer be needed (we hope they end soon). You would think they would have already done that since a previously full disclosed vulnerability was quickly on hackers’ radar, but it appears those moderators have such disdain for the rest of the WordPress community that their continued ability to act inappropriate is more important that what is best for the rest of the community. [Read more]