Re: What is the threat on WordPress User

Henri Salo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.basics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:16:10PM +1000, Gautam wrote:
> I am building a small WordPress blog, i think i have done all that is
> required from security point of view however recently i notice that
> there some of fake user registration.

You should definitely keep your WordPress-instance updated and remember to update plugins as well. Most of our actual attacks against WordPress-installations has been done using known plugin vulnerabilities. Usually plugin with small amount of users is less maintained and contains crappier code. All of the plugins are in SVN btw: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/

- Henri Salo

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