Colin Xu
Colin Xu is a security researcher credited with 106 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec WordPress vulnerability database, ranked #68 of 3,515 contributors. Their disclosures were published between 2024 and 2026. The most productive year was 2024, with 54 findings.
Their research concentrates on Cross-Site Scripting, which accounts for 50 of their findings (47%). Other recurring categories include SQL Injection, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). The average CVSS score across these disclosures is 6.6, peaking at 9.8. Severity breakdown: 2 critical and 37 high.
The most affected software includes RSS Aggregator by Feedzy (4), WP Image Uploader (3), Advanced File Manager Shortcodes (2), across 93 distinct plugins, themes and core versions in total.
83 of the 106 disclosed issues have a vendor fix, while 23 remain unpatched. The most severe finding, "Multi Uploader for Gravity Forms <= 1.1.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload", scores 9.8 out of 10.
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of 3,515 researchers
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