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 Ultimate GDPR and CCPA Compliance Toolkit plugin, which has 6,000+ sales on Envato Market, was prone to a critical unauthenticated settings import and export vulnerability affecting version 2.4 and below that could allow an attacker to redirect traffic to a malicious site among other issues.
The WordPress uListing plugin (3,000+ active installations) fixed multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting version 1.6.6 and below.
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.