{"id":136666,"date":"2022-03-11T01:31:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T09:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/1-out-of-3-wordpress-plugins-does-not-receive-security-updates-millions-of-websites-at-risk"},"modified":"2022-03-11T01:31:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T09:31:34","slug":"1-out-of-3-wordpress-plugins-does-not-receive-security-updates-millions-of-websites-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/1-out-of-3-wordpress-plugins-does-not-receive-security-updates-millions-of-websites-at-risk","title":{"rendered":"1 out of 3 WordPress plugins does not receive security updates; millions of websites at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-plvKXjb_CY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A report specialized in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitynewspaper.com\/2022\/02\/18\/secure-your-wordpress-backups-critical-vulnerability-in-updraftplus-plugin-affects-millions-of-websites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WordPress<\/a><\/strong> security points to a 150% increase in reported flaws during 2021 compared to the previous year, in addition to establishing that almost 30% of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitynewspaper.com\/2022\/03\/07\/severe-vulnerability-in-linux-kernel-allows-hackers-to-escape-from-a-container-to-execute-arbitrary-commands-on-the-affected-host-cvss-7-0-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vulnerabilities<\/a><\/strong> detected in plugins for WordPress do not receive updates.<\/p>\n<p>Since this is the most widely used <strong>content management system (CMS)<\/strong> in the world, this should be a worrisome issue for tens of millions of website administrators.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/patchstack.com\/whitepaper\/the-state-of-wordpress-security-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Patchstack<\/a><\/strong> specialists, of all the flaws reported in 2021, only 0.58% resided in the WordPress core, while the rest affect themes and plugins created by dozens of developers. In addition, about 92% of these flaws are in free plugins, while paid plugins were affected by 8.6% of the failures reported last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report specialized in WordPress security points to a 150% increase in reported flaws during 2021 compared to the previous year, in addition to establishing that almost 30% of the vulnerabilities detected in plugins for WordPress do not receive updates. Since this is the most widely used content management system (CMS) in the world, this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}