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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Multiple WordPress plugins were found to be vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
The WordPress 404 to 301 plugin (100,000+ active installations), fixed a broken access control vulnerability affecting version 3.0.7 and below.
WordPress Popular Posts plugin (300,000+ active installations) fixed improper input validation affecting version 5.3.2 and below that could lead to remote code execution.
Multiple WordPress plugins were found to be vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
The WordPress Kiwi Social Sharing plugin fixed a critical vulnerability affecting version 2.1.0 that could allow unauthenticated users to modify WordPress options in the database and take over the website.