Email Alerts for Security Vulnerabilities in Your WordPress Plugins

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Get Email Alerts for Security Vulnerabilities in Your WordPress Plugins
by Sarah Gooding, WP Tavern
April 9, 2015

WordPress.org has not yet created a way to publicly identify the plugins for which its security team is pushing out automatic updates. The process involves coordination with the plugin developer and the core developers who have been allocated to verify and test the vulnerabilities.

Once their automatic update process for mitigating serious vulnerabilities is ironed out, it would be helpful to have a section of WordPress.org dedicated to transparency about which plugins have received these forced automatic updates.

In the meantime, WordPress users need to remain vigilant about staying current with updates. Plugin Vulnerabilities is a plugin that helps users stay on top of security releases. Once installed on your site, it can automatically detect known security vulnerabilities in any of your installed plugins. It will alert you via the admin and you can also turn on email alerts for notification in your inbox.

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