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 Doneren Met Mollie plugin (4,000+ active installations) fixed a broken access control vulnerability affecting version 2.8.4 and below that could lead to authenticated information disclosure.
The WordPress WP Quick FrontEnd Editor plugin (1,000+ active installations) is prone to a broken access control vulnerability affecting version 5.5 and below that could lead to authenticated content injection, stored XSS and settings change.
The WordPress Newsletter Manager plugin (5,000+ active installations) is prone to an insecure deserialization vulnerability affecting version 1.5.1 and below that could lead to unauthenticated PHP object injection.
Getting quickly informed when a security update is available in your themes or plugins is an important factor in keeping your website safe.
The WordPress ListingPro theme, which has 19,000+ sales on Envato Market, fixed a critical vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated user to upload any file on the blog, among other issues.