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Security: WordPress/wp-admin-bar-overflow

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Security policy

Reporting a vulnerability

Please report security issues privately, not as a public GitHub Issue.

Preferred channel: GitHub Security Advisories; opens a private discussion thread with the maintainers.

Backup channel: email security@automattic.com with the subject line WP Admin Bar Overflow security report. The Automattic security team triages and forwards to this project's maintainers.

What to include

  • A description of the issue.
  • Reproduction steps (or proof-of-concept code if you have one).
  • The affected version of the plugin (run php -r "require 'wp-admin-bar-overflow.php'; echo WP_ADMIN_BAR_OVERFLOW_VERSION;" or check the plugin header).
  • Your assessment of impact (privacy / integrity / availability).

Response

  • We aim to acknowledge within 48 hours of receipt.
  • We follow a coordinated disclosure window of 90 days from the acknowledgment. After 90 days, the report is published in the GitHub Security Advisory regardless of fix status, with a clear statement of mitigations and any user actions required.
  • If the issue is also present in WordPress core or in a host-side adapter, we coordinate with those teams in private before public disclosure.

Scope

In scope: this plugin's PHP source (src/, wp-admin-bar-overflow.php), JS source (src/*.js), tests, and documented filter API.

Out of scope: third-party host adapters that hook our filter API (those are the host's responsibility); WordPress core; downstream forks.

Hall of fame

We acknowledge security researchers in advisory disclosures and (with permission) in the project's release notes.

There aren't any published security advisories