Ryan Dewhurst

Ryan Dewhurst is a security researcher credited with 5 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec WordPress vulnerability database, ranked #744 of 3,515 contributors. Their disclosures were published between 2011 and 2018. The most productive year was 2015, with 2 findings.

Their research concentrates on Cross-Site Scripting, which accounts for 3 of their findings (60%). Other recurring categories include Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), SQL Injection. The average CVSS score across these disclosures is 7.1, peaking at 8.8. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 3 high.

The most affected software includes Yoast SEO (2), Disqus Comment System (1), MailPoet Newsletters (Previous) (1), across 4 distinct plugins, themes and core versions in total.

All 5 disclosed issues have since received a vendor fix. The most severe finding, "Yoast SEO <= 1.7.3.3 - Blind SQL Injection", scores 8.8 out of 10.

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High

Medium

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Global Rank

#744

of 3,515 researchers

Vulns

Critical0

High3

Medium2

Low0

Affected Assets

4plugins

Avg CVSS

7.1

Average score of vulnerabilities

Researcher Submissions

5 records


2018-06-01 00:00	wpForo Forum < 1.4.12 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting wpForo Forum < 1.4.12	`CVE-2018-11709`	6.1 Medium	Ryan Dewhurst	Yes
2015-03-11 00:00	Yoast SEO <= 1.7.3.3 - Blind SQL Injection Yoast SEO 1.5.6 – 1.7.3 · 3 branches	`CVE-2015-2292`	8.8 High	Ryan Dewhurst	Yes
2015-03-10 00:00	Yoast SEO <= 1.7.3.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Yoast SEO 1.5.6 – 1.7.3.3 · 3 branches	`CVE-2015-2293`	7.5 High	Ryan Dewhurst	Yes
2012-11-22 00:00	MailPoet Newsletters (Previous) <= 2.1.6 - Cross-Site Scripting MailPoet Newsletters (Previous) <= 2.1.6	`N/A`	6.1 Medium	Ryan Dewhurst	Yes
2011-12-11 00:00	Disqus Comment System < 2.68 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Disqus Comment System < 2.68	`N/A`	7.1 High	Ryan Dewhurst	Yes

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