Welcome back to Patchstack’s “Last Patch”. This is a special episode, normally these blog posts are lessons in defensive coding tactics using a plugin that has already been disabled due to abandonment. However, in this post I will share with you the happy story about a plugin author that was able to apply the recommended […]
Accepting your mistakes. The human experience is full of mistakes, failures, and folly. I would say this is “the truth” but this statement itself may be wrong, and I accept that .. but I’m saying this first to make my next point. Mistakes make the world go round. We can observe a fault and learn […]
When people come together, contribute to a like-minded goal. Great things can happen. Community is inherent in any successful open source project. The good news is, connecting with others is something humans are good at doing. The bad news is, not all open source projects benefit from this. Connection and community are powerful tools for […]
The great open-source bazaar. This is the idea to bring as many vendors (open source developers) under one roof (or repository) to share their wares with whoever may be interested. This sounds well and good, but this bazaar has one big secret. Look closely at some of the offerings and you may expose concerns about […]
Welcome to Patchstack’s “Last Patch”. This is a short series of blog posts where we will be discussing and patching unpatched security bugs in open-source projects. With an initial focus on plugins found in the WordPress.org plugin repository This post will review the webmaster-tools-verification plugin. This plugin was first created in 2009 and is extremely simple […]
Welcome to Patchstack’s “Last Patch”. This is a short series of blog posts where we will be discussing and patching unpatched security bugs in open-source projects. With an initial focus on plugins found in the WordPress.org plugin repository Today I will be discussing how to address an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the member-hero plugin. […]
Welcome to Patchstack’s “Last Patch”. This is a short series of blog posts where we will be discussing and patching unpatched security bugs in open source projects. With an initial focus on plugins found in the WordPress.org plugin repository The troubling truth is some open source projects do not receive patches when security bugs are […]