Title: Possible security issue
Last modified: March 24, 2022

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# Possible security issue

 *  [B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blclda/)
 * (@blclda)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-security-issue-10/)
 * I ran your plugin via the [https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/plugin-security-checker/](https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/plugin-security-checker/)
   and it found:
 * Possible Issue Detected in Product Blocks for WooCommerce:
 * This plugin is extracting potentially untrusted user input from shortcode attributes.
   The documentation of PHP warns against doing extraction of untrusted user input
   because of the security risk involved in that. Its usage is also officially discouraged
   by the coding standards for WordPress.
 * Just wondering, I even tried to directly get in touch via your support but it
   seemed impossible, not the best for possible security disclosures.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-security-issue-10/)
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