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The Really Simple SSL plugin became popular, with 5+ million installs, as a simple WordPress plugin and then the developer started bloating it with unrelated features. One of those was adding plugin vulnerability alerts. They recently explained doing that this way:
“We figured that with our reach we could impact security on the web as a whole, by adding features in order of impact on security,” Hulsebos said. “So vulnerabilities, after hardening features specific to WordPress, was next. [Read more]