27 Sep 2019

Not Really a WordPress Plugin Vulnerability, Week of September 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 level of getting their own post we now place them in a weekly post when we come across them.

Remote Code Execution (RCE)/Arbitrary File Upload in wpForo Forum

One of the changelog entries for version 1.6.5 of wpForo Forum is: [Read more]

29 Jun 2018

What Happened With WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities in May 2018

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 May (and what you have been missing out on if you haven’t signed up yet): [Read more]