The security of WordPress gets a lot of news, as it is estimated that over 25% of websites worldwide run on WordPress
Today the headlines on security blogs roared the news of another WordPress bug. Those headlines draw lots of eyeballs and click-throughs, because WordPress is the number one CMS in the world with an estimated 27% of all sites running WordPress. WordPress detractors gleefully repost, tweet and whisper. In staff meetings and small businesses across the […]
WordPress is the most deployed CMS in the world, so it is not a surprise that WordPress security issues are an important topic for WordPress site owners and future site owners. For people thinking of building a new website, we often hear there are real concerns about WordPress security. Hosted website builders such as Squarespace […]
An interesting article from Security Week crossed my monitor today (18 June). It seems that a developer of code analysis tools ran its scanner on the top 50 WordPress plugins (by number of downloads). The vendor, CheckMarx, discovered vulnerabilities in 18 of the top 50 plugins. Seven of the top ten e-commerce plugins for WordPress […]