About a month ago we noted that the security scanner service Detectify seemed to have disclosed a number of unfixed reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins that the developers may not have been notified of. One of those was in the plugin Pretty Links (Lite). It looks like the vulnerability that might be referred to there would be only exploitable in the version if the plugin had yet to be used for it intended function, so the vulnerability is of even less concern than a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability normally would be.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Pretty Links (Lite) not discovered by us, where the discoverer hadn't provided the details needed for us to confirm the vulnerability while we were adding it to the data set for our service, so the rest of its contents are limited to subscribers of our service.

If you were using our service, you would have already been warned about this vulnerability if your website is vulnerable due to it. You can try out our service for free and then see the rest of the details of the vulnerability.

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