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 a variant of one of those vulnerabilities, an authenticated option update vulnerability being introduced in to the plugin WPGetAPI. The vulnerability allows anyone logged in to WordPress to break the website.

The vulnerable code comes from a new import feature of the plugin. The related new export feature looks to be similarly insecure as well. [Read more]