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How Our Customers Helped Make WordPress Plugins More Secure, Week of February 16

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Our customers provide us with the ability to help make WordPress plugins more secure. Mostly, with plugins they use, but to a lesser extent other plugins. That work often goes unmentioned. So we are highlighting that to help to better understand what is going on and how signing up for our service can help to expand that work.

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability Fixed in Formidable Forms

In January, we found that the developers of the 300,000+ install Formidable Forms had incompletely addressed an issue with cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in the plugin. We found that because at least one of our customers was using the plugin and there was a new version released that suggested there might be a fix for that type of issue. Earlier this week, the developer release an update that fixed the remaining issue. [Read more]