WordPress Pwnie Awards

Posted by DK

August 13, 2008

The Pwnie Awards, an ‘annual awards ceremony celebrating and making fun of the achievements and failures of security researchers and the wider security community’.

It seems like hardly a week goes by without a new vulnerability in WordPress or one of its many plugins. Many of them are actively being exploited to own popular WordPress blogs and use them to serve spam or client-side exploits to unsuspecting visitors. The popularity of WordPress combined with the abysmal security practices of WordPress plugin developers places the entire Internet at risk and is worthy of a nomination.

More info at pwnie-aware.org.