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How Our Customers Helped Make WordPress Plugins More Secure, Week of February 23

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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.

This week, we again found that vulnerability fixes in popular plugins were incomplete or hadn’t been applied to all the plugins they needed to be. Some of those have now been addressed, some haven’t. You can sign up for a free trial of our service to see if you are using plugins that are known to be vulnerable. We currently have data on plugins with at least 8.2 million installs that are known to be vulnerable and still  in the WordPress Plugin Directory. [Read more]