The Top 10 WordPress Security Mistakes
Sooner or later, we all deploy a PHP web application (Joomla, WordPress, Magento, etc.). I’m currently doing some security work, and I deal with a huge number of sites that have been hacked. The crazy thing is that 90+ percent of these compromises could have been prevented by a few security precautions. Here’s a list of the most common misconfigurations and security holes (from a System Administrator’s perspective), along with how to fix them.
We also look at some of the most popular goals of the attackers (‘consequences’).