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In reviewing reports of vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins to provide our customers with the best data on vulnerabilities in plugins they use, we often find that there are reports for things that don’t appear to be vulnerabilities. For more problematic reports, we release posts detailing why the vulnerability reports are false, but there have been a lot of that we haven’t felt rose to that level. In particular, are items that are not outright false, just the issue is probably more accurately described as a bug. For those that don’t rise to the level of getting their own post, we now place them in a weekly post when we come across them.
Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Clearfy
WPScan claimed reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability had existed in the WordPress plugin Clearfy. The proof of concept provided, though, doesn’t work. Looking at at the version this was supposed to be fixed in, there was a security improvement made, but it doesn’t look the code was vulnerable based on the proof of concept not working. [Read more]