From the course: WordPress: Building a Secure Site
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How WordPress sites become vulnerable - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress: Building a Secure Site
How WordPress sites become vulnerable
- [Instructor] WordPress is one of the most popular CMS platforms in the world, in large part due to how inherently secure it is. But since it's the most popular CMS in the world that also means it's the most targeted. A study done by Sucuri in 2020, shows us that 94% of websites that were infected with malware in 2019 were WordPress websites. According to the study, most of the hacks were due to vulnerabilities with plugins and themes, configuration problems, and a lack of maintenance and updates. Another report done in 2019, showed that out of a testing pool of 2,837 vulnerabilities were caused by plugins 75% of the time, WordPress core 14% of the time, and themes 11% of the time. Remember that WordPress is open source which means that anyone, anywhere, can contribute code to the files that make up WordPress and to the plugins and themes that help make WordPress work. There are a lot of review processes and guidelines…
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