WordPress Website Security Vulnerabilities and Steps to remain Secured

WordPress is no more confined to being just a solution for creating your personal blog with beautiful themes. One needs to re-assess the potential of the platform. The Open Source Framework of WordPress has evolved from its very nature to deploy robust CMS (content management systems). Whether it is a corporate website, social media or a blog page, the choice has become more and more targeted towards WordPress.

WordPress is one of the most prominent content publishing platform on the internet, which is the reason it has become a prime target for hackers and spammers. WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platforms available online and powers almost 25% of websites worldwide, but being open source it is being vulnerable to attacks.

According to WordPress Security, more than 70% of WordPress installations are highly impermeable to hacker attacks which is growing every year. This time attackers used WordPress Mobile plugin to upload backdoor scripts on WP sites in such a way that it would show adult themed SEO spams to the user. This would severely impact the global ranking and the market value of the website.

In current scenario, there are about 3,972 known WordPress Security Vulnerabilities out of which WordPress Plugins are 52%, core WordPress are 37%, WordPress Themes are 11%.Mario Heiderich, Masato Kinugawa and Filedescriptor from Cure53 analyzed and reported to the issues in WordPress versions 4.5.1 and earlier. Teams of Plupload and MediaElement.js worked closely with them to fix the issues in Wordpress versions 4.2 to 4.5.1.

The Zero-Day was found in plugin called ImageMagick which is used to directly or indirectly resize the images uploaded by the end users. There is no panic as security firms like Sucuri has confirmed there is connection between the two vulnerabilities.

Protect Wordpress Website:

1. Remove weak login id and common passwords. Enforce strong unpredictable passwords and use two-factor authentication.
2. Prevent Malware
3. Secure Vulnerable Servers
4. Set proper Permissions
5. Host your website with a good quality hosting company
6. Setup WordPress correctly
7. Use a service like iThemes Sync to keep all WordPress sites updated with latest version of WordPress and installed any plugins and themes.

LetsNurture has been serving various clients with WordPress website and configuring some of the best plugins to get personalised touch to the website. They are known to conduct regular website security tests to ensure that the website runs bug-free and is fully secured from hacking attacks.

Whenever you find any security issues report with WordPress.com site and send email with complete issue details to info@letsnurture.com

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