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20 May 2022

Not Really a WordPress Plugin Vulnerability, Week of May 20

In reviewing reports of vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins to provide our customers with the best data on vulnerabilities in plugins they use, we often find that there are reports for things that don’t appear to be vulnerabilities. For more problematic reports, we release posts detailing why the vulnerability reports are false, but there have been a lot of that we haven’t felt rose to that level. In particular, are items that are not outright false, just the issue is probably more accurately described as a bug. For those that don’t rise to the level of getting their own post, we now place them in a weekly post when we come across them.

Admin+ Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in Smush

A couple of weeks ago Automattic’s WPScan claimed that the plugin Smush had contained an admin+ reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability that involves somehow getting an Administrator to upload a file to their website: [Read more]

22 Apr 2022

1+ Million Install WordPress Plugin From Security Plugin Developer WPMU DEV is Lacking Basic Security

Yesterday a new version of the WordPress plugin Smush, which has 1+ milllion active installs according to wordpress.org, with a changelog entry indicating that security fix was being made:

Fix: XSS vulnerability [Read more]

1 Feb 2019

Not Really a WordPress Plugin Vulnerability, Week of February 1

In reviewing reports of vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins we often find that there are reports for things that don’t appear to be vulnerabilities. For more problematic reports we release posts detailing why the vulnerability reports are false, but there have been a lot of that we haven’t felt rose to that level. In particular are items that are not outright false, just the issue is probably more accurately described as a bug. For those that don’t rise to level of getting their own post we now place them in a weekly post when we come across them.

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Add Code To Head, All-in-One WP Migration, Diamond MultiSite Widgets, Smush, and Yeloni Exit Popup

Related reports of SQL injection vulnerabilities in Add Code To Head, All-in-One WP Migration, Diamond MultiSite Widgets, Smush, and Yeloni Exit Popup appears to come from someone that has no idea what a SQL injection vulnerability is. As an example, take the plugin Add Code To Head, where they claim that there is this vulnerability in the file add-code-to-head.php despite there being no SQL statements in that file and the GET parameter “id” that is supposed to be utilized as part of this, isn’t used. What they are claiming proves that there is an issue is the following, which they refer to as a “SQL Database Error”: [Read more]