Hello,
I just had the following notification from WPEngine
Hello,
At WP Engine we take the security of your sites very seriously, and make every effort to keep our customers aware of any potential security risks. We are reaching out to you today because we identified your site(s), ndanaylov, is (are) utilizing a vulnerable version of the WP Activity Log plugin.
At this time, we are not seeing that the plugin author has released an update or patch for this vulnerability.
WP Engine summary of the vulnerability: Data from an attacker could be interpreted as code by site visitors’ web browsers. The ability to run code in another site visitors’ browser can be abused to steal information, or modify site configuration.
Original 3rd-party’s report on the vulnerability: Please note that questions related to this article should be directed to the 3rd-party researcher and not WP Engine:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-33999
We encourage you to assess the risk of continuing to use this plugin until a patch is released.
Please make sure to run a backup of your database before making any changes. You can learn how to do this in this article: http://wpengine.com/support/restore/ .
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Are the devs aware of this and working on a patch?