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[Richard Gaskin]

Matthias Rebbe wrote:

 > One problem i see with WordPress is, that its popularity make it a
 > popular target for hackers.

Any sufficiently popular system will be *targeted* by hackers.  The 
question is: how many result in a successful exploit?

Aiming for a target and actually hitting it are usually very different 
metrics.

I subscribe to a few security newsletters (I've found O'Reilly's 
particularly worthwhile), and CVEs against WP seem reasonably rare the 
days, with quickly deployed updates to counter them.  I see CVEs against 
every OS far more regularly.  While there was a spate of PHP issues just 
after the turn of the century, in recent years we don't even see much 
there, probably far fewer than for JavaScript which affects many more 
people (every web browser).

Popularity may guide hacks, but with WP it's also a very strong plus: 
the ecosystem of plugins and themes is vast.  And even on the security 
side, its popularity is useful by providing more eyeballs reviewing and 
fixing code.

Overall, I'd say WP is no less safe than just about any alternative, 
provided you do the basic stuff any system requires:  automate security 
updates, use only the latest release version, use strong and unique 
passwords, always use HTTPS (Let's Encypt now makes that both free and 
automatable), etc.

Ass we've seen with most exploits, those involving WP sites were usually 
running outdated versions, or had weak passwords, or some other 
easily-avoidable weakness unrelated to the system itself.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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