The Ninja Technologies Network
For the past six months, we have reported quite a lot of vulnerabilities we discovered in WordPress themes and plugins. Here are some interesting stats and facts about them, as well as a few recommendations for developers.
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The WordPress 2J SlideShow plugin, which has 3,000+ active installations, fixed an authenticated arbitrary plugin deactivation vulnerability affecting version 1.3.31 and below.
The WordPress Ape Gallery plugin, which has 6,000+ active installations, fixed an authenticated arbitrary plugin deactivation vulnerability affecting version 2.0.6 and below.
The WordPress GDPR Cookie Compliance plugin, which has 90,000+ active installations, fixed an authenticated settings deletion vulnerability affecting version 4.0.2 and below.
The WordPress Ultimate Addons for Elementor plugin fixed a critical zero-day vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated user to gain administrator privileges via the AJAX API.