{"id":7194,"date":"2015-05-04T10:58:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=7194"},"modified":"2015-05-04T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T17:58:13","slug":"discovered-possible-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/04\/discovered-possible-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"discovered possible vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered a possible vulnerability in a WordPress plugin that supports OpenID authentication for comments. The developer&#8217;s website is down and the plugin hasn&#8217;t been updated in two years.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s protocol for this these days? I&#8217;ve trivially patched my own install, but (particularly pending further analysis which I have <em>not<\/em> done &#8211; for all I know it&#8217;s not actually exploitable&#8230; but I kind of think it is) I strongly recommend disabling this plugin unless you have your own patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered a possible vulnerability in a WordPress plugin that supports OpenID authentication for comments. The developer&#8217;s website is down and the plugin hasn&#8217;t been updated in two years. What&#8217;s protocol for this these days? I&#8217;ve trivially patched my own install, but (particularly pending further analysis which I have not done &#8211; for all [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}