In reviewing reports of vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins we often find that there are reports for things that don’t appear to be vulnerabilities. For more problematic reports we release posts detailing why the vulnerability reports are false, but there have been a lot of that we haven’t felt rose to that level. In particular are items that are not outright false, just the issue is probably more accurately described as a bug. For those that don’t rise to level of getting their own post we now place them in a weekly post when we come across them.

Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in WF Cookie Consent

Last week we discussed basically the same exact claimed persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability as is now claimed to be in the plugin WF Cookie Consent with a similarly named plugin Cookie Consent. As with that one the first three steps have no connection with the plugin: [Read more]