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Re:CMS Scanner: Scan Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla websites for ... by bigiain on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:31PM (#18513529)
Back when I did a lot of WP sites, the WordFence plugin pretty much did exactly this...

Looks like it's still available and recently updated: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

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Re:CMS Scanner: Scan Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla websites for ... by Vanderson on Friday November 23, 2018 @12:34AM (#18514572)
At a glance this looks neat. But don't you think it's odd that WP doesn't have built in security of a similar nature?
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Re:CMS Scanner: Scan Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla websites for ... by lowercased on Friday November 23, 2018 @07:23AM (#18515993)
no, because it takes time/effort to keep all that up to date. if wp.com provided it for a fee for wp.com-hosted sites, i'd understand that.
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