Tuesday, October 17, 2017

WordPress sites are at risk from vulnerable plugins

WordPress is one of the most popular and widely deployed content management system technologies on the web.  It adoption has been widely attributed to huge universal of plug-ins which easily adds functionality to your site.

But nearly all WordPress sites are at risk from vulnerable plugins.

That's one of the key findings from the SiteLock Website Security Insider Q2 2017 report, which is based on an analysis from a sample size of more than 6 million websites.

SiteLock found that 44 percent of plugins in the WordPress repository have not been updated in over a year.

Correspondingly, SiteLock also found a correlation between the number of installed plugins on a WordPress site and the chances of that site being compromised. n this slide show, eWEEK looks at some of the highlights from the SiteLock Website Security Insider Q2 2017 report.

Full report embedded below

                                            

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