In continuation of yesterday’s post about bbPress, I decided to look for a more impactful race condition vulnerability. What’s more impactful on an online business than ecommerce?
WooCommerce is up for the thread-safety test in this post and probably a couple of other to follow.
In a highly-concurrent high-load environment bbPress will not count the topics and replies correctly. This happens due to several race conditions in the code. While not a critical vulnerability, it’s annoying. I wonder how the dotorg forums keep the numbers accurate? Maybe they don’t and nobody cares 🙂 but it’s something I’ve been very passionate about – data accuracy and race conditions.
