WordPress offers quite a large array of plugins that cater to an enormous amount of tasks. That’s one of the main reason behind its fast adoption rate. The ease of finding and installing a WordPress plugin might lower your attention to whether that plugin will be a good and cost-effective solution for your website. In fact, it’s not only easy to install a new plugin, often it’s the very first step you might take to adding a new functionality to your WordPress site.
Problem is that being able to browse through thousands of plugins, both free and paid, and install them in a matter of seconds, opens the gates to a proliferation of unnecessary plugins being added to WordPress installs. And this deliberate approach could have negative impacts on site performance, security, and maintenance costs.
However, given the number of WordPress plugins available and how important their role is, it is easy to be intrigued by their longevity and ask:
Why do WordPress plugin updates are released?
Let’s start with an example:
Caldera Forms, a well-known contact form, suffered from a Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) security vulnerability which might have compromised the sites it was installed into.
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/17559/should-i-update-my-wordpress-plugins-here-s-your-data-backed-answer
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/should-i-update-my-wordpress-plugins-heres-your-data-backed-answer/
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