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2018 Analysis: WordPress Remains Top Target in Hacked CMS Scene

Calendar Mar 05, 2019 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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content management plugin vulnerabilities CMS security website maintenance WordPress security
Roughly 90 percent of all the hacked content management systems (CMSs) Sucuri investigated and helped fix in 2018 were WordPress sites. In a distant second, third, and fourth came Magento (4.6 percent), Joomla (4.3 percent), and Drupal (3.7 percent), according to a report the company published yesterday.

Sucuri experts blamed most of the hacks on vulnerabilities in plugins and themes, misconfiguration issues, and a lack of maintenance by webmasters, who often forgot to update their CMS, themes, and plugins.

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