Unlike most companies providing security services related to WordPress we are interested improving the security of the WordPress ecosystem, so that the average website isn’t required to use any security product or service. That isn’t easy since even the people on the WordPress side of things too often don’t seem interested in that. One new way that we are trying to improve security is by catching serious vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins when they are included in a new version of the plugin (if we had more customers we could expand this to less serious vulnerabilities).

Through that we have already found a number of lesser vulnerabilities that came up in the course of looking into potential instances of the more serious vulnerabilities. So far many of those haven’t been fixed, so those using the plugins would want to be using a service or plugin that notifies of vulnerable plugins to aware of the problem. While there a number of those, from our checking the other ones have not included those vulnerabilities or many of the others we have disclosed, so that is where our service provides you something you can’t get elsewhere (those other data source are missing many recently disclosed vulnerabilities disclosed by others as well). [Read more]