Title: Site Security
Last modified: October 26, 2023

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# Site Security

 *  [cuber617](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cuber617/)
 * (@cuber617)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-security-8/)
 * Thanks for your time; love the plugin and have used for almost a year; just did
   your latest update to 1.7 and got this from Cloudways – my host:
 * ——————————
 * We are writing to inform you about a critical matter related to your website’s
   security. Our vulnerability detection system (powered by patchstack.com) has 
   detected potential security vulnerabilities in your application MYSITE.com that
   require immediate attention.
 * We strongly recommend implementing the following steps immediately:
    1. Take a backup of your application.
    2. Update the identified core, theme, or plugin (listed below) to a newer version
    3. If an update is unavailable for a theme or plugin component, we recommend deleting
       it and replacing it with an alternative.
 * Here are the detected vulnerabilities in your application:
   Plugin(s):
    - WordPress User Location and IP plugin <= 1.6 – Cross Site Scripting (XSS) 
      vulnerability
 * ——————-
 * Any suggestions? Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [cuber617](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cuber617/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-security-8/)
 * Status: not resolved