Automatic Plugin Updates

  • When did automatic updates start happening? Looking through my file change logs, I’ve had a handful of sites update to 4.6.13 (they were running 4.6.10 & 4.6.12) last night but the majority of my websites I handle haven’t updated automatically. I also can’t find a setting anywhere in the plugin for automatic updates.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/better-wp-security/

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  • Sorry for the confusion Leanne. A critical security vulnerability was found in the plugin. In order to prevent this vulnerability from compromising sites once the vulnerability was known publicly, we worked with the www.ads-software.com security team to have vulnerable versions automatically updated.

    In other words, this is not a feature of the plugin. It is something that the www.ads-software.com security team can do in order to ensure that critical security vulnerabilities on sites are quickly patched. This is only done rarely and when the www.ads-software.com security team believes the vulnerability to be big enough to warrant the automatic update.

    You can find further details about the vulnerability and the updates in our announcement post.

    A critical security vulnerability was found in the plugin.

    Yes, 11 months ago … and reported in this forum:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/log-viewer-xss

    dwinden

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