Settings Change Vulnerability in LiteSpeed Cache

This week Patchstack claimed that a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability had been fixed in the WordPress plugin LiteSpeed Cache in December. The changelog for the version it was claimed to have been fixed has a somewhat cryptic mention of fixing a security issue that sounds somewhat different:

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin LiteSpeed Cache 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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