The last two updates for the security plugin Block wp-login were “Important security update”. That shouldn’t be the sort of thing that happens with a security plugin, but it isn’t surprising if you look at our bewildering exchange we had with the developer of that in the comments of our post about a vulnerability in another of their security plugins. The vulnerability fixed is good example that security plugins can have serious downsides, while providing little upside. In this case the functionality doesn’t really seem like something the average website needs, if it was a good idea it should be integrated in to WordPress, and the vulnerability would stop people from logging in to WordPress.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Block wp-login 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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