WordPress plugin hole puts '2 million websites' at risk
According to a Patchstack, there was a 150 percent increase in the number of WordPress vulnerabilities reported between 2020 and 2021, and 29 percent of plugins with critical vulnerabilities at the time remained unpatched.
In addition, WordPress' ease-of-use lets anyone from tech hobbyists to professionals to quickly set up a website, adding to the security risks with the platform, according to Melissa Bischoping, director of endpoint security research at cybersecurity firm Tanium. "Because many of the plugins available for WordPress sites are developed by the community, they may not be regularly audited and maintained," Bischoping told."The plugins themselves may contain security vulnerabilities and it is also easy to misconfigure permissions or plugin settings, exposing additional opportunities for exploit."
She added that"for some of the most popular plugins, those can be present in literally millions of websites, which is an attractive large scope of opportunity for a threat actor."that anyone whose WordPress site is hacked should migrate it to a SaaS host, where the security maintenance is outsourced to a third party and a web application firewall can be put up in front of the site.
"The vast majority of bloggers and small business owners that run WordPress sites … are not cybersecurity experts," Ellis said."WordPress certainly needs updating on a consistent basis, especially if you have a website that has a number of plugins and third-party code." ®
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