[wp-forums] Thoughts on the share-and-follow plugin support system

[Otto]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Francisco de Azevedo
<frandeazevedo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody!
> I recently recommended this plugin to an user on the forums since we have
> been using it on one of our sites and it works really well.
> However, this was before I realized the plugin seems to have been removed
> from the repository. While researching why that may have happened, I landed
> here:
> http://share-and-follow.com/support/
> This seems a little border-line to me since the user seems to be offering
> the plugin free of charge as a backdoor to sell premium support to its
> users, and just let us volunteers take care of the rest of the plugin
> users. Also, if you look at his profile, it seems it's been a couple of
> months since he participated in the forums, which tends to confirm my fears.
> Could that be the reason why the plugin is no longer available? If it's
> not, what are your thoughts on this?
> Cheers!

That plugin was closed due to a reported security vulnerability. The
vulnerability is confirmed, but considered to be low-risk.

The author of the plugin has been emailed, but has yet to respond to
the report.

-Otto