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.

Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Wp-Insert

If there really was an unfixed arbitrary file upload upload vulnerability in a WordPress plugin with 30,000+ active installations, as was claim to be the case with a report of a vulnerability in the plugin Wp-Insert, that would be a big deal since it would be basically guaranteed to be exploited. But it isn’t true. [Read more]