3 Hidden Risks for WordPess Users, WordPress Threats:
WordPress is feasibly the most popular content management system & blogging platform. The WordPress CMS is free and easy to use as well as comes with a lots of inbuilt features that would cost thousands of dollars to business owners in development expenses.
The CMS also represents a useful platform for web development for small businesses. It is complex to familiarize with the system weakness to avoid the hidden security risks.
WordPress platform is update regularly to respond the known threats and find out the issues but it’s not possible to find out each & every issue. Have a look on the WordPress Platform’s three major security weakness that you should aware of:
- WordPress is vulnerable to attacks & Url Hacking:
WordPress executes server side scripts in the Php language, using commands via url parameters to control the behavior of MySQL databases that contains your site data.
If you are not technical to handle your own website then you don’t need to worry. You don’t need to have any technical knowledge of coding to protect your website. Hackers use url parameters to get the sensitive content from your website. They use SQL injection technique and replace the content with spam or malicious content.
To prevent site from such an harmful content you have to modify the .htaccess file which is configurable file to control the behavior of hosting server. This code only works for WordPress owners who are using Apache based web hosting. If you need further assistant for modifying your .htaccess file for enhance your website security you can contact your hosting provider or hire a web developer.
- Free WordPress Themes Contain Security Exploit:
One of the best advantage of WordPress is that it is available for free and you can install free plugins & themes for your designs & functionality requirements. Unfortunately unscrupulous developers have downloadable theme files with undetectable spam links of malware file that affect a website after installation of theme.
For security purpose of your website, download files from trusted sources. Paid themes have fewer security risks than free themes. But if you want to use free themes than you can scan them before uploading files to find out the issues available before uploading.
- WordPress default login :-
All the default login attempts for WordPress dashboard logins are located at same urls that means every WordPress site admin dashboard can be easily hacked. The default WordPress setting does not allows you for secure login. That means a site running on WordPress CMS may be vulnerable for “bruteforce attacks” in which bot programs try several login combinations in the hope that one combination will allow access to website.