See issues causing the plugin to get less than A+ grade
The people behind the Wordfence Security plugin do some strange stuff. For example, in a recent post they again referred to us as an “unnamed security researcher”:
The file upload vulnerability was initially made public in a report by an unnamed security researcher, which was irresponsibly published on April 23rd without privately notifying the plugin’s author. [Read more]
While we already are far ahead of other companies in keeping up with vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins (amazingly that isn’t an exaggeration), in looking in to how we could get even better we noticed that in a recent instance were a vulnerability was exploited in a plugin, we probably could have warned our customers about the vulnerability even sooner if we had looked at the plugin when it was first closed on the Plugin Directory instead of when the vulnerability was fixed (though as far as we are aware the exploitation started after we had warned our customers of the fix). So we are now monitoring to see if any of the 1,000 most popular plugins are closed on the Plugin Directory and then seeing if it looks like that was due to a vulnerability.
This week four of those plugins were closed and two have yet to have been reopened. [Read more]
A week ago we disclosed an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the plugin WooCommerce Checkout Manager. On Friday the plugin was closed on the Plugin Directory. Early on Saturday the developer submitted a fixed version of the plugin to the Subversion repository that underlies the WordPress Plugin Directory. On Sunday the plugin was reopened on the Plugin Directory.
If you believe a post put out by Sucuri yesterday you would believe something very different. In part they write: [Read more]
With an arbitrary file upload upload vulnerability in the plugin WooCommerce Checkout Manager our proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities caught, a good reminder is provided that things are not always as they visibly seem with plugins.
In the plugin’s settings, by default it appears that you cannot upload files as the setting for that is not checked: [Read more]