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2 Oct 2017

What Happened With WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities in September 2017

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Here is what we did to keep those are already using our service secure from WordPress plugin vulnerabilities during September (and what you have been missing out on if you haven’t signed up yet):

Plugin Security Reviews

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Plugin Vulnerabilities We Discovered and Publicly Disclosed This Month

We don’t just collect data on vulnerabilities in plugins that others have discovered, we also discover vulnerabilities through proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins, monitoring hackers activity, reviewing other vulnerabilities, and by doing additional checking on the security of plugins.

This month the most concerning vulnerabilities were a number PHP object injection vulnerabilities, since that type of vulnerability is likely to be exploited and the vulnerabilities had existed in plugins with ten of thousands of active installs.

Plugin Vulnerabilities We Helped Get Fixed This Month

Letting you know that you are using a vulnerable version of plugin is useful, but it is much more useful if you can fully protect yourself by simple updating to a new version. So we work with plugin developers to make sure that vulnerabilities get fixed. This month we helped to get vulnerabilities fixed in plugins that have 63,600+ active installs:

Plugin Vulnerabilities Added This Month That Are In The Current Version of the Plugins

Keeping your plugins up to date isn’t enough to keep you secure as these vulnerabilities in the current versions of plugins show:

Additional Vulnerabilities Added This Month

As usual, there were plenty of other vulnerabilities that we added to our data during the month. In addition to a number of PHP object injection vulnerabilities we discovered this month, there were also a number discovered by others.

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