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May 2015

wp_remote_get() vs. wp_safe_remote_get()

Due to a small Twitter discussion, which started after a tweet of Pippin I realized again, the WordPress HTTP API has “safe” functions. Some days or weeks ago I’ve heard of them already, but I didn’t check on them. The topic is the following: The functions wp_remote_post(), wp_remote_get() and wp_remote_head() do have siblings, which are […]

March 2015

WP Slimstat security fix

On February the 24th the security blog Sucuri published a possible way for an SQL-injection using the WordPress Plugin WP Slimstat. This problem was found up to the version 3.5 of the plugin, which has over 100.000 active installations according to the WordPress repository statistics. WP Slimstat is a famous web analytics plugin for WordPress: […]