5 Default Security Threats in WordPress

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WordPress Security
WordPress is a massively popular, completely open source piece of software. The great thing about that security-wise, is that there is a huge community that work with it, who are able to discover bugs as well as security risks quicker than one might with an in-house CMS solution. (It’s hard to find out about weaknesses when one way to find out is actually having the weakness exploited, and having a huge user base makes discovery a lot more likely.)

The downside is that hackers with bad intentions know exactly how your Country Email List website is built. They already have the ‘blueprint’ to your site. And if there are any weaknesses in the core, themes or plugins that you use, that’s something they will be able to know without ever gaining access to the backend of your site.

So in this post, I’ll show you how to fix 5 security threats that are present in any completely default installation of WordPress. (If you’ve already taken some precautions, you might find that you’ve already fixed one or two, but it’s important to fix all five to minimize your risk of being hacked.)





Your Site Shows You’re Using WordPress, Plus The Version
WordPress Version

The default version of WordPress will have lines of code that give away that your site is built using WordPress, even down to the version to people who know where to look. Depending on the theme, it might even be showed visually on every page of your website.