Several of the recent Subversion log entries for the plugin Essential Real Estate are “Fix error Reflected XSS”. The plugin was closed on the Plugin Directory on Friday, possible due to that. Looking at the changes made we found there was escaping code added numerous places, so we ran the previous version of the plugin through our Plugin Security Checker toll to see if it would identity any possible of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) that we could check to see if they were fixed. We found that the first possible instance identified by our tool was exploitable and was fixed in the new version.

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