Summary: There are over 1.5 billion websites on the internet today and 30% of them are powered by WordPress. That’s over 450,000,000 WordPress websites and counting. You may be asking yourself, “How fast is the WordPress market share increasing?”. A whopping 50,000 new WordPress websites are launching each day and over 22 billion pageviews a month are served by WordPress sites.WordPress is by far the most popular content management system (CMS) in use today. When only looking at websites that are powered by a CMS platform, WordPress holds 60% of the market. Joomla is the second most used CMS with a meager 6.3%, followed by Drupal with 4.8%, Magento with 2.7%, and Blogger with 2.5%. It’s safe to say that WordPress is dominating the CMS market and is forecasted to remain the reigning champion.What does this all mean?With WordPress’s massive numbers, it’s a HUGE target for hackers. WordPress, just like any other software, needs to be updated. The number one thing anyone can do to safeguard their website is to keep the WordPress platform and plugins up to date. Sounds simple right? It is, but many people often neglect this process for one reason or another. An outdated WordPress site is extremely vulnerable.Why would anyone hack me?Often, people have the mindset of “I don’t need to worry about hackers because I have a tiny website and why would anyone want to harm me?”. Most hackers are not usually singling out one specific website to compromise. They are casting a wide net and taking down as many websites as they can, in one fell swoop. Hackers don’t care how small a website is or how much traffic it receives, they will go after the largest target and focus their time and energy into the biggest payout. Once a vulnerability is discovered, the hackers go to work compromising, defacing, or completely deleting websites. If your WordPress site is out of date, then you need to take action to ensure your website is updated and secure.Case and pointIn February of this year, hackers found a content-injection vulnerability within the WordPress core files and thousands of websites were hacked before anyone knew there was a problem. WordPress quickly patched the vulnerability with version 4.7.2. Since updating the WordPress Core files is often neglected, many websites were left out of date. Hackers rushed to compromise the remaining websites that were without the security patch. Many outdated websites have been repeatedly hacked and defaced by mutable hackers. These websites will continue to be hacked over and over again until the sites are updated. To date, over 1.5 million websites have been hacked due to this single content-injection vulnerability.Recent Web Design ArticlesHow to C... You are listening to the topic about "WordPress Security Vulnerabilities", if you want to read the full article, please visit https://geniuswp.com or the link in the description.
