WordPress Developer Notes
Introduction
WordPress scanner is a free online resource that blog administrators can use to provide a measure of their wordpress security level. It is BETA software and is continually being developed.
If you have landed here directly we suggest starting at the wp-scanner launch page.
This page is part of a group of pages discussing various aspects of [...]
WordPress Scanner FAQ
Introduction
WordPress scanner is a free online resource that blog administrators can use to provide a measure of their wordpress security level. It is BETA software and is continually being developed.
If you have landed here directly we suggest starting at the wp-scanner launch page.
This page is part of a group of pages discussing various aspects of [...]
WordPress Scanner Next-Gen Released
Here it is!!!
Its been a long and exciting week. Not only are we experiencing the most severe snow in Kent but I’ve finally managed to role out the massively improved WordPress vulnerability scanner. It can also be accessed using the menu link above, “WordPress Scanner”.
It is a complete re-write of the old scanner. I’ve not [...]
Are Political Blogs More Likely to Get Hacked?
A website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual appearance of the site. These are typically the work of system crackers, who break into a web server and replace the hosted website with one of their own. – wikipedia
Web site defacements stretch back to the birth of the Internet and continue [...]
Old WP-Forum Vulnerability Gets Disclosed
An vulnerability for Fredrik Fahlstad’s WP-Forum Plugin has been made public on milw0rm. The exploit appears to affect an older version (1.7.8) of the popular WordPress plugin.
The plugins homepage is already on version 2.2. This means this vulnerability was probably discovered shortly after the initial version 1.7.4 vulnerability reported by BlogSecurity in early 2008.
As [...]
