Title: Potential Security Issues
Last modified: November 9, 2016

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# Potential Security Issues

 *  Resolved [e4girl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e4girl/)
 * (@e4girl)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/potential-security-issues-2/)
 * Hello! We recently had an audit done to look for potential security issues with
   plugins we use for our university website. The audit revealed several unsanitized
   post variables. Is this something you are aware of? If so, is it on the roadmap
   to be fixed? If not, are you amendable to making the changes? Thank you!

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 *  Plugin Author [Juliette Reinders Folmer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrf/)
 * (@jrf)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/potential-security-issues-2/#post-8416804)
 * There’s quite a lot more I’d like to improve aside from that, but time is limited.
   
   I wouldn’t worry about the issue you mention too much as – if I remember correctly–
   the user authorisations are checked, so it would have to be a malicious admin
   to do any harm and even then, the harm which could be done is *very* limited 
   as the plugin code is effectively only loaded on the plugins page in the back-
   end.
 * Patches are very welcome though, please send in a PR on GitHub: [https://github.com/mjangda/plugin-notes](https://github.com/mjangda/plugin-notes)
 *  Thread Starter [e4girl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e4girl/)
 * (@e4girl)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/potential-security-issues-2/#post-8417008)
 * Thank you for the quick response. I’ll check with my team on a patch and get 
   it to you. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [e4girl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/e4girl/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/potential-security-issues-2/#post-8417008)
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