One of the ways we help to improve the security of WordPress plugins, not just for our customers, but for everyone using them, is the proactive monitoring of changes made to plugins in the Plugin Directory to try to catch serious vulnerabilities. Through a recently added improvement to that we continue to find more remote code execution (RCE) related vulnerabilities, which isn’t a great sign about the security of WordPress plugins. This time it led to us finding an authenticated variant, which can also be exploited through cross-site request forgery (CSRF), which has been in the plugin WP-Stateless for six months.

Since our Plugin Security Checker utilizes the same checks, it will alert you if plugins you use possibly contain the same type vulnerable code (and possibly contain more serious vulnerable code). From there if you are a paying customer of our service you can suggest/vote for it to receive a security review that will check over that or you can order the same type of review separately. [Read more]