Author: ZoneWP
Date: April 7, 2020
Category: Plugin development, SEO, Security, Tips and tricks, Tutorials, Webhosting
WordPress site owners who use the Contact Form 7 Datepicker plugin are forced to remove or deactivate it. In order to prevent attackers from creating rogue admins or taking over admin sessions after exploiting an authenticated cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
However, the Contact Form 7 plugin is completely safe. And it has not affected by the XSS vulnerability identified in Contact Form 7 Datepicker.
Plugin no longer available on WordPress Repository
This Contact Form 7 Datepicker plugin has been closed since 1 April 2020 and is not available for download. After Wordfence QA Engineer Ram Gall reported the XSS bug
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