The Ninja Technologies Network
For the past 30 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 few recommendations for all developers of WordPress plugins and themes.
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NinjaScanner is a lightweight, fast and powerful antivirus scanner for WordPress which includes many features to help you scan your blog for malware and virus.
Starting from version 3.0, NinjaFirewall, our Web Application Firewall for PHP (Pro and Pro+ Edition) and WordPress (WP and WP+ Edition), includes a new powerful filtering engine.
8 WordPress plugins were prone to a high severity authenticated arbitrary plugin installation vulnerability, among other issues.
The WordPress Sparkling theme (30,000+ active installations) fixed a unauthenticated function injection vulnerability affecting version 2.4.8 and below.
WordPress AdSanity plugin is prone to a critical vulnerability affecting version 1.8.1 and below that could allow a low-privilege user to perform arbitrary file upload, remote code execution and stored cross-site scripting attacks.
Code Profiler is a plugin to measure the performance of your WordPress plugins and themes. It makes it super easy to locate any bottleneck in order to speed up your website.
The WordPress JobSearch WP Job Board plugin (1,600+ sales on Envato) fixed a broken access control vulnerability in version 1.8.1 and below that could allow users to take over the website and its database.