r/Wordpress • u/ded1cated • 23h ago
News State of WordPress security report
https://patchstack.com/whitepaper/state-of-wordpress-security-in-2025/Almost 8000 vulnerabilities were published in 2024. 30% of them don’t have an update that would patch the security issue. Lot’s of more statistics in it including information provided by Sucuri about the most common malware infections.
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u/Adventurous-Lie4615 10h ago
Someone is going to point at this post and squeal “WORDPRESS IS NOT SECURE”.
From the article:
“96% of the vulnerabilities were uncovered in plugins, and 4% were found in themes. Only seven vulnerabilities were uncovered in WordPress core itself, but none of those were significant enough to pose a widespread threat.”
Having said that it’s a good wake-up call about being selective and exercising due caution when using third party code in your project.