7 Nov 2022

Wordfence Falsely Claims WordPress Plugin Contains a “Critical” Vulnerability Because It Confused it With Another Plugin

Recently, we have covered multiple instances where the WordPress security provider Wordfence was falsely claiming that WordPress plugins contain “critical” vulnerabilities, despite there being no vulnerability. That is despite them marketing one of their services, Wordfence Intelligence, partly based on providing high-quality data of that type:

Wordfence Intelligence includes a comprehensive and extremely current vulnerability database for WordPress that contains nearly 7,000 unique vulnerability records. This database is actively maintained by some of the top WordPress vulnerability researchers in the industry. [Read more]

1 Aug 2017

What Happened With WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities in July 2017

If you want the best information and therefore best protection against vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins we provide you that through our service.

Here is what we did to keep those are already using our service secure from WordPress plugin vulnerabilities during July (and what you have been missing out on if you haven’t signed up yet): [Read more]

6 Jul 2017

Vulnerability Details: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Responsive Lightbox

From time to time a vulnerability is fixed in a plugin without the discoverer putting out a report on the vulnerability and we will put out a post detailing the vulnerability so that we can provide our customers with more complete information on the vulnerability.


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