Title: Security-Warning
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Security-Warning

 *  Resolved [Patrick Nießen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hovida/)
 * (@hovida)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-warning/)
 * Hi,
 * I am a plugin developer, I fall so loving something up:
 * WordPress stores various information, including in global variables. Problem 
   here is that there credentials are used (for example, the database).
 * Since you can access with plugins on these variables, this is a serious security
   leak.
 * Not only theoretically but also practically a plugin can access the data and 
   send this via e-mail!

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-warning/#post-2302041)
 * Yes. Which is why you should choose your plugins carefully.

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 * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-warning/#post-2302041)
 * Status: resolved

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