nyasha green: patchstack has released its state of the wordpress security in 2022 report: the takeaways

The reports aim to identify the security risks that users face when using and building.  The theme seeks to try and come up with in.   In 2022 the biggest risk found was the use of abandoned or maintained plugins and themes and broader concern with security issues in open-source.   The company boasts of having WordPress database and running the first bug bounty program for WordPress plugins.   Most security bugs were found in plugins   6.7% of bugs were found in Themes and 0.6% in WordPress platform.   The popular plugins with reported security bugs were Elementor Website Builder, Essential Addons for Elementor, and UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup.  42% of WordPress sites have at least 1 software installed..   Patchstack has for us is to pay attention to the libraries we are using on our projects.   In 2021 Patchstack created Patchstack Alliance, community of cybersecurity experts, including researchers, developers, pentesters, and bug bounty hunters.   Those numbers continue to grow as more people are willing to get involved in bug hunting and the game like style with cash prizes does not hurt.  2022 Patchstack alliance top contributors You can read the breakdown by Patchstack here.   Overall, the future looks bright as more and more bugs being discovered and awareness is becoming popular part of in the community.  ...   @Ny The Creator Nyasha is Editorial Director at MasterWP and developer at Howard Development & Consulting, the company behind WP Wallet...   Read more