Alternative to “This Day in History” plugin

  • Hey guys,
    I’ve just been warned, that further updates on the much cherished plugin “This Day in History” has been discontinued, why the plugin is now popping up as a security risk in my WP-Dashboard.
    I really love this plugin, helping me feature important days in music history on my music blog (latebar.org).
    Do any of you know of alternative plugins, that’ll do the same?
    And will all my date-data be lost when I change plugin or is there a way to ‘save’ the stored data?

    Cheers and have a wonderful day ??

    /Ken (founder of The Latebar Blog)

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  • The plugin is closed and there is a public security report on it. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-34026

    The recommendation would be to find an alternative, but your data would unlikely transfer.

    There is a custom post type tdih_event that stores the event so in theory you can export that not that it would be much use without something to import it.

    The plugin security will likely be because unescaped echo s which a quick code scan finds 93 across 4 files.

    So it would be totally feasible to fork the plugin ( allowed by GPL ) and apply the escapes it would only take a seasoned WP dev an hour.

    Although as the plugin only looks like it had around 300 active users I doubt any developer would be interested in adopting it for free.

    I would pay to have this security issue fixed, the only other thing I was thinking is to export it and create individual pages, now I am just thinking how to organize them

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