WordPress powered businesses are at risk of being exposed by severe vulnerabilities due to the latest discovery from Barak Tawily, a security researcher. According to Tawily, an application-level denial of service in the WordPress CMS platform could potentially allow hackers to infiltrate most websites with a single machine (opposed to a typical network-level DDoS attack which needs a massive amount of bandwidth).
According to The Hacker News, WordPress has refused to acknowledge this potential vulnerability, saying that it should be mitigated at the server end or network level opposed to the application level, which is outside the control of WordPress. Considering WordPress powers nearly 30% of the web, this security risk can expose millions of website to hackers making them unavailable for legitimate users.
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If you’d like to read more about the vulnerabilities surrounding this DoS in the WordPress CMS platform, click here.