{"id":21584,"date":"2023-10-16T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T07:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/?p=21584"},"modified":"2023-07-20T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T07:22:44","slug":"plugins-the-weakest-link-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/en\/plugins-the-weakest-link-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugins, the weakest link in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"
WordPress takes security seriously, and the company behind WordPress, “Automattic,” regularly releases security updates.<\/strong> Since 2007, we have been working with WordPress, and we can say that WordPress has always been one of the safest Content Management Systems, and it still is.<\/p>\n However, not every corner of the WordPress world is sunny. With 48,000+ free plugins<\/a> created by unknown companies and developers, there are also many vulnerable plugins that become the weak link in WordPress’s watertight system.<\/p>\n Here are a few examples of popular plugins that have had security issues:<\/p>\n These are just five random plugins, but at the time of writing, there are 5194<\/strong> known WordPress core, plugin, and theme vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n You might think, “Who would try those vulnerable plugins on my website?!” But here’s the bad news: at least 30,000 to 50,000 computers are actively hacking and processing 1000 requests per minute! Fully automated!<\/strong><\/p>\n Calculation: This only refers to home hackers who use programs to search the internet (Google) for injecting plugins. If we add the scripts running through servers, you wouldn’t believe how many websites are attempted and successfully hacked daily (to show advertisements).<\/p>\n Indeed, once a site is hacked, the hacker will only display advertisements.<\/strong><\/p>\n Consider what that does when a hacker can place their product on thousands of sites weekly, and some people end up buying it. The hacker exploits the trust that these sites have built with their customers. When a customer buys a product from the hacker’s webshop, the hacker earns good money. Usually, these products are expensive, and there’s uncertainty about whether they’ll arrive. In short, there’s a lot of money to be made in a short time without much effort.<\/p>\n This antivirus plugin is specially developed for WordPress. The plugin is fully in Dutch and gives you a great advantage over hackers.<\/p>\n The plugin blocks injections, protects your server, and shows you who is attempting to log in to your WordPress falsely. This antivirus plugin combats hackers in over 200 ways and blocks many of their attempts.<\/p>\n All our sites run with this antivirus plugin because we don’t give hackers a chance!<\/p>\n WordPress takes security seriously, and the company behind WordPress, “Automattic,” regularly releases security updates. Since 2007, we have been working with WordPress, and we can say that WordPress has always been one of the safest Content Management Systems, and it still is. However, not every corner of the WordPress world is sunny. With 48,000+ free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Some Popular Plugins<\/h2>\n
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1 or 2 vulnerable plugins on my site are not a problem, right?<\/h2>\n
\n30,000 computers x 1000 requests = 30,000,000 x 24 hours
\nThat’s 43,200,000,000 hacking attempts per day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAll that effort for a little advertisement?<\/h2>\n
Preventing Hackers from Exploiting Your Website<\/h2>\n
More Tips to Protect Against Hacks<\/h2>\n
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