When it comes to getting information on the security issues in WordPress plugins, developers of plugins are not always the best source. That is the case with a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability discovered by Federico Scalco that was in the plugin Caldera Forms. While that was claimed by the discoverer of the vulnerability, the developer of the plugin, and all of the other data sources of vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins we are aware of, to have been fixed in version 1.6.0 of the plugin, it actually wasn’t, as testing out the claimed vulnerability would have show any of them (the ease of testing that would will be something we will go into in another post). If you were using our service you would have been correctly notified that it hadn’t been fixed.

That has now been fixed in version 1.6.1.1. Here what the developer wrote about that: [Read more]