A few more words about this course
In a recent study done by Sucuri, around 90% of all the hacked content
management systems that they investigated and helped to fix were
WordPress websites.
If you rely on your website for your business - whether for
marketing, business operations, collection of payment, or anything important -
protecting your website is crucial.
- WordPress is the most widely-used CMS software in the world and it powers more than 40% of the top 10 million websites, giving it an estimated 62% market share of all sites using a CMS.
- According to a study by Sucuri, a multi-platform security company, WordPress continues to lead the infected websites they worked on (at 83%)
- Because WordPress powers over 40% of all websites on the internet, and with hundreds of thousands of theme and plugin combinations, it is not surprising that vulnerabilities exist and are constantly being discovered.
- According to WordPress, today over 57% of WordPress users are still on PHP 5.6 or lower
- If you combine this with PHP 7.0, a whopping 77.5% of users are currently using PHP versions that are no longer supported
- Did you know that it has been reported that plugin vulnerabilities represent 56% of the known entry points for hackers
- According to research by Kinsta nearly 50% of the plugins in the repository have not been updated in over 2 years
