WordPress Leaving Webmasters in the Dark About Closed Plugins with At Least 500,000 Active Installs
Today we had somebody contact us asking if we had any insight in to why a plugin was removed from the Plugin Directory (after seeing one of yesterday’s posts). While we did find a vulnerability in that plugin (which we plan to disclose today or tomorrow), it seems more likely it was removed due to not working anymore. The person that contacted us mentioned that there had been other plugins removed the same day with the same message:
This plugin was closed on February 7, 2018 and is no longer available for download. [Read more]