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I had someone argue that Wordpress had terrible security. The only CVE's it had for 2 years only happened if you allowed random users to sign up. There is a f
by AlienRobot 1y ago
I had someone argue that Wordpress had terrible security.
The only CVE's it had for 2 years only happened if you allowed random users to sign up.
There is a firewall plugin and basically the only thing it does is check if you have outdated plugins and log all the times a bot tried to log in by going posting user:admin password:admin to /wp-login.php. It's rare but a few of them tried my domain name as username instead. It sends me e-mails about new vulnerabilities found, and it's always some plugin. Sure, some of them are "installed" in thousands or millions of websites, but it's never anything in the Wordpress core itself.
If you hide /wp-login.php and avoid dependencies, it's practically impenetrable since it has to be the most battle-tested CMS out in the wild, and yet people swear it's Swiss cheese of security holes.
- thunderfork 1y ago"WordPress is fairly secure as long as you don't use any extensions and don't let arbitrary users sign up" is technically true, but it's no surprise that a lot of WordPress use cases collide with these two things. For example, a WooCommerce site is both more sensitive than a blog and more likely to have sign-ups open and functionally necessary additional plugins running. For better and for worse, WordPress is the ecosystem, not just the software itself.
- hcrean 1y agoxml-rpc.php paid for my pool... but I freely admit to a degree of "because the scanner said so".