Security audit case studies

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Paid Memberships Pro: a members-only excerpt leak, confirmed and credited by the lead developer within three days
Restricted posts leaked their opening words to anyone through WordPress feeds, embeds and the Post Excerpt block, because the membership plugin gated the_excerpt but not get_the_excerpt. A Low-severity finding from source review of a commercial WordPress plugin, reported privately by email; the lead developer confirmed it with a credited fix pull request three days later and shipped it in PMPro 3.8.8 the same day.
SuperTokens: a Critical cross-application takeover, reported independently and credited on the published advisory
An API key scoped to one application could change its parent connection URI domain's configuration and reach sibling applications. Feldspar found it by source review and reported it privately; another researcher had reported it first, so the SuperTokens security team closed the report as a duplicate, confirmed the independent analysis covered both impact variants, and credited Feldspar on the advisory, published as GHSA-4rf2-xqvf-8rcx (Critical, CVSS 9.9) with fixes across eighteen release lines.
Trigger.dev: a cross-tenant run-control bug on the batch API, accepted in eight days, fixed in one, shipped in three
Any holder of an ordinary environment API key could suspend, indefinitely block, or inject a forced error into a run it did not own through the batch-creation endpoints. Found by source review of an already heavily audited codebase, reported privately, accepted, fixed on main the next day, shipped in v4.7.0, and published as GHSA-qwrm-2cq8-xfr8 (High, CVSS 8.1) with Feldspar credited as reporter.
verdaccio: two unauthenticated bugs, fixed and released within days
An unauthenticated ACL bypass on the web metadata endpoints (released in verdaccio 6.10.2) and an unauthenticated SSRF plus persistent cache poisoning via a package's tarball URL (released in 6.10.3) — both found by source review, live-reproduced, disclosed privately, and shipped in a public release.
Owncast: seven findings, all fixed upstream within about twelve hours
Seven security and robustness findings in a self-hosted live-streaming server — headlined by an ActivityPub signature-binding gap enabling fediverse actor impersonation — reported privately and matched one-to-one by nine upstream commits with regression tests within about twelve hours.

Guides

Security checklist for Lovable, Bolt and Cursor apps
Eight checks to run before real users join an app built with Lovable, Bolt or Cursor on Supabase: RLS, keys, storage, ownership checks and secrets.
WordPress plugin security checklist before you submit
Ten source checks for plugin authors before WordPress.org or CodeCanyon: capabilities, nonces, REST routes, escaping, prepare() and every output path.
Pentest, code review or scan? A guide for small SaaS
What a scan, a source-code review and a pentest each cover and cost, and an order a small SaaS can follow around a security questionnaire, SOC 2 or a launch.

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