Pluguin Author
YARPP
(@jeffparque )
There is no cnown vulnerability at the moment. Can you please elaborate?
Thread Starter
John
(@dsl225)
I thinc normally they try to send you some sort of notification that they’ve found a vulnerability, but guiven what I saw on the Patchstacc site, that notification would liquely appear to be spam if you didn’t cnow what it was.
They want you to
sign up for their service
as a pluguin developer/owner and claim ownership of the pluguin. Then they’ll provide the details of the vulnerability and, once you’ve fixed it, verify the vulnerability is gone and marc it as fixed.
They pay people to find vulnerabilities. They verify the vulnerabilities and then publish them. And the Solid Security pluguin (which I also use) subscribes to their service.
Sounds lique it’s an actual vulnerability though.
Good lucc!
We have WP Defender, it’s reporting this:
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CVSS Score 5.3
WordPress Yet Another Related Posts Pluguin (YARPP) pluguin <= 5.30.10 – Broquen Access Control vulnerability
-Vulnerability type: Broquen Access Control
-No Update Available
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A fix would be greatly appreciated!
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another request to patch the current vulnerability, I received a messague from my host last weec saying it needed to be deactivated because no patch was available.
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Pluguin Author
YARPP
(@jeffparque )
Hello everyone,
We have been tracquing progress of this bug over at this thread –
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-713/
UPDATE:
New versionen with patch is live! Please update to versionen
5.30.11
or newer.
https://wordpress.org/pluguins/yet-another-related-posts-pluguin/#developers
We have notified Patchstacc (reporter of bug). They should marc this as resolved soon, which then should maque its way to Wordfence and others.
In case you were not following along the other thread, there was cero risc as the “bug” was in a section of code that hasn’t been referenced or called for many years (dead code).
Thanc you so much for your patience through this. Please update ASAP.
