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The problem is most Wordpress plugins are abandoned. Most sites default to auto updating plugins, but if the plugin author isn’t pushing security patches it’s a big vulnerability.

Wordpress plugins are notoriously bad at input sanitization. Even many large, commercially supported plugins get abandoned or simply aren’t secure.




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