The plugin Side Menu was closed on the WordPress Plugin Directory on Wednesday. On Friday a new version was submitted with the changelog entry “Fixed: Security parameters”. Running the previous version of the plugin through our Plugin Security Checker flagged several possible instances of SQL injection in the code, which we found could be exploited through cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and had been fixed in the new version. In looking into that, we found another vulnerability that still exists in the plugin.

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