One way we help to improve the security of WordPress plugins, not just for our 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, a user deletion vulnerability in the plugin Atarim – Client Interface.

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