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One of the things that should have long ago raised a lot of alarm about the state of the WordPress security industry is how often security plugins are found to contain vulnerabilities. Instead, it has been treated as evidence that it is normal for plugins to be insecure, not that there is something very wrong with security providers. That is quite unfortunate because it means that the good providers are not getting the support they deserve and security is suffering for it.
In June 2022, we did a large-scale test to see if WordPress security plugins would have stopped a vulnerability of a type, persistent cross-site scripting (XSS), that hackers are known to widely exploit, which was found in the security plugin WP Cerber Security. The results were not good. Only two of 31 plugins provided protection against the vulnerability itself. Last year, another vulnerability of that type was disclosed in the plugin. So we were curious to see how many plugins protected against that one. [Read more]