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Otter@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack

arstechnica.com

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Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack

arstechnica.com

Otter@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Malicious updates available from WordPress.org create attacker-controlled admin account.
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  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    Representatives for developers of the remaining three plugins couldn’t be reached because they provided no contact information on their sites.

    You’re asking for trouble if you’re using such random plugins on production sites.

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    If i were to take a shot every time vulnerabilities are found in the WordPress ecosystem i’d be comatose by now…

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      It’s not the product, it’s the cavalier consumption of unsigned add-ons despite knowing better.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      What are alternatives of WordPress if I wanted to add something to my website?

      • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
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        Drupal, but you are getting into a different type of complex symfony code built on years and years of drupalism’s. It’s powerful and pretty well maintained though.

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        If you want to add something to your website then you’re already running WordPress, no?

        • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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          No, I haven’t added nothing. I was going code a basic html 5 page but I wanted a blog like atmosphere, since the website is all about my writing.

  • 555@lemmy.worldBanned
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    People still use Wordpress? lol

    • eskimofry@lemmy.world
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      Its convenient. Not everyone wants to waste their life centering divs you know

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        As if wordpress would be the only CMS out there.

      • unexpectedteapot@lemmy.ml
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        Right, because the only alternative to using spaghetti old code is making your own, not using one of the many actively maintained free software.

        https://ghost.org/

        https://bearblog.dev/

        https://writefreely.org/

        Among many others you’d easily find if you give up on the hivemind of taking the most popular approach.

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      Over the past 4 years WordPress usage has grown from 35% to 43.4% ~ [W3 Techs](https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress](https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all/y)

      As much as I hate so much about WordPress, yes it is the most used CMS. Period. Your comment is just ignorant.

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