One of the reasons WordPress has become so widespread is that it’s a breeze to use, sporting a very intuitive UI, simple drag and drop technology, and a number of features which make your life much easier. It’s well-known that even someone who’s never touched WordPress can get a hang of it in less than a day. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do any wrong with it. Mistakes do happen when people use WordPress, and quite often at that.
I am sure, you got a mini heart attack to have your website flagged with a scary looking red screen with the message Deceptive Site Ahead in it. And you have been striving to retrieve your website from that danger ever since maybe. Yes, you are in the right place. In this article, we will try to answer most questions around that dreaded sentence “Deceptive Site Ahead”. Further, we will help you in removing that face shaming message from your website.
WordPress is currently powering millions of websites on the internet. While this Content Management System is easy-to-use, it has also fallen victim to repeated security attacks over the last 5 years. In this post, you’ll find out what are the platform’s vulnerabilities, the most common attacks, and best WordPress security practices.
WordPress is a versatile content management system (CMS) that gives webmasters the opportunity to edit and change a wide range of website elements. This is exactly what makes the platform so popular worldwide, so now we can see that WordPress powers one-third of the entire Internet. But you do have to learn a few simple lines in order to get the job done properly, so keep reading our post to see 15 useful WordPress configuration tricks.
The website analytics plugin for WordPress Slimstat, has been found vulnerable to stored XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability in versions <=4.8. At moment of writing this blog, it is installed on 1,00,000+ websites. Slimstat is a known plugin for tracking website analytics in real time, it monitors and reports stats of access logs, returning customers and registered users, JavaScript events, etc.
Owing to the widespread presence of WordPress, hackers, in fact try incessantly to make past every popular WordPress plugin. As a result, vulnerability disclosures in WordPress plugins almost seem like a never ending process. This time its Fb messenger live chat by Zotabox. So, FB messenger live chat by Zotabox has recently been disclosed to have persistent XSS vulnerability.
Ninja Forms, is a WordPress plugin which allows websites to facilitate creating and customizing forms just by dragging and dropping. Moreover, it is currently in use on 1 million+ websites. This data, obviously, hints at the popularity Ninja forms when enjoying when the news of Ninja Forms' "File upload" extension being vulnerable to arbitrary file upload and path traversal surfaced a day ago. And it was quite a shocker.
You are starting a new business and want to launch a website and are looking for a robust Content Management System (CMS). Your friend suggests you WordPress as the obvious choice because of the availability of multitude themes and plug-ins and low effort basic installation. But your major concern is security. You ask, Is WordPress Secure?
Managing content on the web now is just a matter of seconds affair, thanks to WordPress open-source structure. WordPress has been on the web since the time when blogging was only a new trend. WordPress has evolved with time and has created a successful ecosystem of plugins & themes developers and users. However, like any popular software solution, WordPress has its fair share of security vulnerabilities. Recently, the WordPress iOS app was found leaking sensitive access token of WordPress blog to third party websites. Apart from this, WordPress is one of the widely targeted CMS by attackers and thousands of users each year suffer from a WordPress site hacked. Weighing in on WordPress's security concerns, its CEO Matt Mullenweg once remarked that,
When it comes to shopping online, security is one of the main concerns you’ll be thinking about. After all, you want to make sure you’re spending your money in the right places while ensuring your personal details are secure, safe, and not at risk of being stolen. However, if you are someone running an online business where people are using your services, this means you need to be offering a secure and safe service for them to use. One of the most common platforms for running an e-commerce store is, of course, WooCommerce - a WordPress plugin and payment platform.
