29 Oct 2018

Vulnerability Details: Authenticated Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages

The plugin AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages was removed from the Plugin Directory on October 21. The changelog for the latest version of the plugin, which was released today, is “Fixed: Plugin Vulnerability #2650”. Looking at the changes in that we found that a major clean up of the codebase has been done and numerous security related changes were made, which makes it hard to figure out what might have been of issue. Looking at related issue on the plugin’s GitHub project doesn’t exactly narrow things down either. But let’s take a look at one example of the type of issue you have had in the plugin before this version.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin AMP for WP - Accelerated Mobile Pages 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.

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