[Defender Pro] Automated Emails Of Known Bugs

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This is a request not just for Defender but all WPMUDev related plugins. An example is that recently there is an issue and still present with the latest release of Defender where the WAF doesn’t activate. Forcing a rollback to the previous version.

Out agency updates manually for the most part so this isn’t a huge issue for us but many agencies auto-update which in this case could have caused multiple websites to become compromised. For which they might hold WPMUDEV accountable.

What would be good is that if WPMUDEV releases a plugin and there is a known issue that the email registered with the client account or website admin email, received a notification with details of the issue and warning them to not update or rollback.

Better yet with an issue like this even if detected after releasing the plugin should be pulled from the marketplace because it’s actually defective at this point.

You could essentially take this even further by sending out a monthly email with all installed plugins on a particular website and emailing out any known issues / conflicts with other plugins / vulnerabilities. This would be really helpful.

  • Adam
    • Support Gorilla

    Hi Big Gun Digital

    I hope you’re well today and than you for your feedback!

    Starting “from the end” – you can set scheduled scanning in Defender (e.g weekly or monthly) and it will then notify you if it detects any known vulnerabilities in installed plugins.

    That’s not “all” that you mentioned but at least something to start with, I believe.

    As for possible bugs/incompatibilities that may be happening with our plugins, I think some sort of such “pro-active” notification has already been considered/discussed in the past internally but it seems quite more complex actually as it may appear “from outside”. But don’t take my word on it.

    Since it’s quite out of my hands, I’ve passed this suggestion over “higher up” to take under consideration.

    Best regards,
    Adam