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In late January, an unfixed vulnerability in a WordPress plugin with 40,000+ installs started to receive widespread exploitation attempts and many websites were hacked. The hacking was in part caused by multiple WordPress security providers, including Wordfence, WPScan, and Patchstack, who all claim to have teams of experts reviewing vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins, claiming that the vulnerability had been fixed three months before that. The moderators of the WordPress Support Forum made the situation worse by deleting an early indication of the problem in the form a message complaining about a website being hacked because of the plugin.
The developer of the plugin promptly fixed the vulnerability once we advised them that it still existed. They then went further than other plugin developers usually do when a plugin has had an exploited vulnerability and got a security review done to ensure the plugin was now properly secured. [Read more]