No, it isn’t WordPress themselves. Rather, it’s the “sneaky” developers who are able to get their plugins in “under the radar”, and then update them to include instances such as what you are mentioning.
With the hundreds of plugins that get added and updated daily, it’s impossible (I would imagine) to go through them line by line.
So, are there plugins out there which are considered “questionable”? Absolutely!! There is a link where you can report a plugin to be investigated as being malicious. I can’t put my hands on the link, but I’ll post back when I find it.
Hey Josh. Yes I understand the situation. Problem is after they investigate them they go right back to deceptive practices. In my opinion wordpress should ban these companies permanently from doing business here. It undermines the whole purpose of wordpress. The amount of time I spent trying to figure out worpress issues I could have just went and bought a product out the store and had phone support and in the long run would have been better off. I’m in the process of finding out who to direct this company to but I think they know it’s coming so after the fact I’m sure they will be right back to business as usual until somebody complains again. Thanks for your response. If u find the link I thank u in advance. 🙂 have a great day bud.
Ok just seen the link thanks I’ll check it out later. I have a meeting with a alternative rock band to discuss a tour but I sure will look in to it. 🙂
