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Since around 2.7 upgrades are as easy as clicking a button - both for plugins and wordpress core updates. Which is, in itself, a fruitful source of potential s
by mechanical_fish 17y ago
Since around 2.7 upgrades are as easy as clicking a button - both for plugins and wordpress core updates.
Which is, in itself, a fruitful source of potential security holes: To accomplish this feature, Wordpress has to have permission to overwrite its own executables.
- russss 17y agoNot to mention the only way they support this is via FTP - and I'm not that keen on enabling an FTP server purely for Wordpress's needs, thank.