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Independently secure, together not so much – a story of 2 WP plugins

Recently we had to do a security assessment on a WordPress website. Obviously when dealing with a WordPress installation the best option is to always target the plugins. We’ve quickly enumerated the plugins using WPScan and then we recreated this setup in our local environment for easier testing & debugging. We found 2 interesting plugins which support file uploads and that is always interesting functionality to abuse, so we will study them one by one.