This is Inconvenient ?

  • Resolved loopforever

    (@loopforever)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    Hello ,
    There is an issue I am curious about. Is it okay at the security point for a plugin to use its “own website” to check for updates?
    Hence, there is an plugin. This plugin works on a site. However, the plugin checks for updates using site b. Does this pose a risk?

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  • There is no risk in doing that because premium plugins have to check for updates that way else the user of the plugin won’t be able to use the auto update feature built into wordpress if they want to do that.

    That said, if it is a free plugin that is also available here on WP.org it should be using the WP.org url as the place to check for updates. I personally have not seen any free plugins which are available here on WP.org that use their own website to check for the updates.

    Thread Starter loopforever

    (@loopforever)

    Thank you very much.

    I can’t get into my website on WP, ecwineclub.com. I’m getting “Error establishing a database connection” when I search for it on Google. I am looking to have a developer help me fix it.

    Best,

    Stella
    [email protected]

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