WordPress; About 90 percent of all hacked content management systems (CMS), according to Sucuri researchers at 2018, were WordPress websites.
In second, third and fourth place were web applications Magento (4,6%), Joomla (4,3%) and Drupal (3,7%), according to report published yesterday by the company.
Sucuri experts reported that most of the hacks were on vulnerable points of plugins, themes, errors in the settings but also the non-updating by webmasters, who often forget to update their CMS, themes and plugins.
According to the company, 90% of all hacked sites used WordPress, and most of them were running updates, with only 36% of them using older versions.
“Attackers seem to be very interested in high-value e-commerce sites data customers (i.e. credit card and user information). It is essential that the owners of these websites update their software immediately.”
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It should be mentioned that the 90% given by Sucuri is not indicative of the security provided by the WordPress CMS, as the company is mostly concerned with the security of the specific platforms.
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