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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A critical vulnerability in the WordPress Adning Advertising plugin (8k+ installations) is currently actively exploited in the wild.
The Security and Malware Scan by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress (5,000+ active installations) fixed a vulnerability affecting version 2.50 and below that could allow any authenticated user to interact with all its AJAX actions.
The WordPress KingComposer Page Builder plugin (100,000+ active installations), fixed multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting version 2.9.2 and below that could lead to authenticated WordPress options change, content injection, stored XSS, arbitrary file deletion and remote code execution among other issues.
The WordPress Brizy Page Builder plugin (60,000+ active installations) fixed a broken access control vulnerability affecting version 1.0.125 and below that could allow any authenticated user to gain full access to the editor.
The Visual Composer plugin for WordPress (80,000+ active installations) fixed multiple stored XSS vulnerabilities affecting version 26.0 and below.