WordPress? About 90 percent of all hacked content management systems (CMS) according to Sucuri researchers in 2018, were WordPress websites.
In second, third and fourth place were the web applications Magento (4.6%), Joomla (4.3%) and Drupal (3.7%), according to the report published yesterday by the company.
Sucuri experts reported that most of the hacks were due to vulnerabilities in plugins, themes, configuration errors, and non-updating by webmasters, who often forget to update their CMS, themes, and plugins.
According to the company, 90% of all hacked sites used WordPress, and most of them were running updated versions, while only 36% of them were using older versions.
“Attackers appear to be showing a strong interest in e-commerce sites with valuable customer data (i.e. credit card and user information). It is imperative that owners of these sites update their software immediately.”
Are you using WordPress? Remove all unnecessary plugins and use a reliable theme. At iGuRu.gr we use Genesis Framework, and as few plugins as possible, always up to date.
Using a reliable hosting service is also important, as well as the security settings you use.
It should be noted that the 90% rating given by Sucuri is not indicative of the security provided by the WordPress CMS, as the company is mostly concerned with the security of this particular platform.
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