Two years ago we created a plugin that list any installed WordPress plugins that have been removed from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. There are a number of reasons that plugins are removed, t
Category: WordPress Plugins
In WordPress 3.7 a new feature was introduced that causes WordPress to automatically apply minor updates to WordPress (for example, going from 3.7 to 3.7.1). The underlying system that handles that
In yet another sad sign of how bad internet security is these days, a security company named Checkmarx released findings on security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins (PDF) while running their o
As part of our continued focus on the problems related to the security of WordPress plugins, last month we compiled some statistics on plugin vulnerabilities found during the second quarter of 2012