stas/uploads — Issue #2: Uploads could be a great plugin
Author: robojo
Created: 2011-12-19 12:22:51+00:00
State: open

No other WP plugin I could find offers the security masking ability of Uploads, which if used with the inherent ability in WP to create an alternate uploads directory provides pretty good security for uploaded files: a bad guy can't execute a malicious file if there's no trail to where it is.

With WP 3.0 offering so many allowed file upload types now, the ability to restrict file types has become as important as the ability to add them, again, as a security feature, and, again, no other plugin allows management of allowed file types the way Uploads does.

Finally, Uploads needs to play well with the Pluploader in WP 3.3 & above. My experience right now is that Uploads usually uploads media files successfully, but the files uploaded nay not always display, either in WP's visual editor or in the posts themselves.

All in all an under-appreciated plugin that could and should be a foundation of all WP uploaded file security.