Read More Excerpt Link
Read More Excerpt Link has 2 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2023; all 2 are fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 4.3, and the most serious one scores 4.3 out of 10. 2023 was the busiest year with 2 disclosures.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), behind 2 of the records (100%).
Every one of the 2 issues recorded for Read More Excerpt Link has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.
2 independent researchers contributed these findings, one record each. Read More Excerpt Link is installed on roughly 3,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
CVE-2023-1068Download Read More Excerpt Link <= 1.6.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
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Read More Excerpt Link
Author
Tim Eckel
Try it out on a free dummy site here => https://demo.tastewp.com/read-more-excerpt-link When WordPress makes an excerpt from your post content, it crops the content and adds an ellipsis […] to the end. This plugin changes the ellipsis to a Read More link to the full post content. You can change the Read More link text to anything you wish from the Read More Excerpt submenu on the WordPress Settings menu. Also from the Read More Excerpt submenu, you can specify the excerpt word length (WordPress defaults to 55 words). Additionally, you can force the Read More link to show even when an excerpt is entered or when a read more tag is added to the content. This is turned on from the Read More Excerpt submenu with the Show More Frequently checkbox. The Read More link uses the class read-more-link, so you can stylize the link any way you wish.
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