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 a less serious vulnerability, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, being introduced in to the plugin UpdraftCentral Dashboard.

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