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In May of last year, the 5+ million install WordPress plugin Really Simple SSL added a feature for detection of known vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins. That seems to be unrelated to what is supposed to be the focus on the plugin. A WP Tavern story about that provided an explanation from the developer on why that should be in this plugin:
“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]