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 Flexible Checkout Fields for WooCommerce plugin, which has 20,000+ active installations, fixed a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting version 2.3.1 and below.
The WordPress GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, which has 700,000+ active installations, fixed a vulnerability affecting version 1.8.2 and below that could lead to authenticated stored XSS and privilege escalation.
The WordPress WPS Hide Login plugin (500,000 active installations) fixed a vulnerability in version 1.5.4.2 and below that could allow an attacker to bypass its security and access the secret login page.
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.