Issue 226 : Jetpack WordPress plugin has API vulnerability, how to address API security in 2023
Brief
This week, we have news of an API vulnerability in the popular Jetpack WordPress plugin affecting millions of websites, an article on how to address growing API security vulnerabilities in 2023, and an article on why API security is the need of the hour. Finally, we have a guide from Port Swigger on how to use Burp Suite to discover GraphQL vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability: Jetpack WordPress plug-in API vulnerability affects millions of websites
The popular WordPress plugin Jetpack forced an update to all installations to address a critical API vulnerability in their plugin. The plugin is extremely popular with WordPress users and has over 5 million downloads globally. This vulnerability has existed in all versions since the original 2. 0 release in 2012.