WordPress Security
Prevention and understanding: hardening, login protection, and attack explainers.
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What is Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and How to Prevent It?
In a cross-site scripting attack, hackers impersonate visitors to hack your site. In this guide, we’ll show you how to set up cross-site scripting prevention.
10 Website Hacks and How to Prevent Them
Learn how common website hacks work and how to protect your site from brute force, injection, malware, and other attacks.
MalCare Protects Against Critical Vulnerabilities in Ultimate Membership Pro Plugin
Learn how two critical Ultimate Membership Pro vulnerabilities enabled privilege escalation and PHP object injection, and how to protect your site.
What Are Some Website Security Best Practices?
Follow practical website security best practices for WordPress, including updates, backups, access controls, scans, and monitoring.
What Are File Inclusion & Arbitrary Code Execution?
File inclusion and Arbitrary Code Execution are among the most common hack attacks. In this post, we’ll try and understand how...
Reasons Why Hackers Hack WordPress Sites
Understand why hackers target WordPress sites, from reputation and stolen server resources to spam, cryptocurrency mining, and data theft.
Pros and Cons of a Plugin-Based Firewall
Understand the benefits and limitations of plugin-based WordPress firewalls, including bypass risks, server load, and attack coverage.
How to Keep Your WordPress Theme and Plugin Code Secure
You got your code up and running, excellent! But how about its protection? You will get nowhere if your WordPress plugin security is not...
What is Layered Defense for WordPress Websites?
Understand layered defense for WordPress and how firewalls, updates, backups, access controls, and scans work together.
How to Limit Access to WordPress Admin Directory?
Learn how to limit access to WordPress admin directory which will help protect your website against hackers, bots and the rest.
A Guide on How to Secure WordPress Admin
To secure WordPress admin of your site against hack attempts, you need to impliment a number of techniques. Learn about them here.
Website Hacking Techniques That Make Your WordPress Website Vulnerable
Understand common website hacking techniques, why WordPress sites are targeted, and practical ways to reduce vulnerabilities.