The changelog for the latest version of Pretty Links is “Fixed some security issues”. Looking at the changes made we found that protection against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) was added for various actions that are restricted to users the “manage_options” capability (so Administrators). Those included the actions to create, update, and delete links handled by the plugin. We found that when creating a link you can also cause cross-site scripting (XSS) to happen, which isn’t normally a vulnerability for users with the “manage_options” capability, though should probably be fixed as well.

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Plugin Security Scorecard Grade for Pretty Links

Checked on August 24, 2024

See issues causing the plugin to get less than A+ grade