The latest version of the plugin Woocommerce User Email Verification got flagged by both our monitoring of changelog entries for mentions of security issues and our proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities. What we have seen so far in looking into what was flagged by the proactive monitoring makes the vulnerability fixed in the version not surprising and probably is a good indication that you shouldn’t use the plugin if you are concerned with security. But for the purposes of this post let’s focus on the vulnerability fixed.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Woocommerce User Email Verification 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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