Re:Multiple vulnerabilities in WP Fastest Cache plugin
by jillesvangurp on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:46AM
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There are multiple plugins that do each of those things. There's no need to build it into the core product.
I'm not a big fan of wordpress but am running it anyway for our corporate website (I'm the CTO) because it hits the good enough mark and it is just not worth my time trying to come up with something better.
The big advantage of the current setup: I don't have to micromanage it beyond making sure we have backups and the site stays up and running. Our sales and marketing people manage the content and I don't have to babysit them. Win, win for me because I have more interesting things to do then maintaining a website.
The downside: it's PHP and security vulnerabilities are a constant risk and worry with that. I just checked we are up to date and don't have this caching plugin installed. However, we have a constant stream of opportunistic bot traffic trying to exploit pretty much every vulnerability ever for wordpress, php, and php related tooling that we aren't even running. So, I'm more than a bit paranoid about any hypothetical way in.
I'm not a big fan of wordpress but am running it anyway for our corporate website (I'm the CTO) because it hits the good enough mark and it is just not worth my time trying to come up with something better.
The big advantage of the current setup: I don't have to micromanage it beyond making sure we have backups and the site stays up and running. Our sales and marketing people manage the content and I don't have to babysit them. Win, win for me because I have more interesting things to do then maintaining a website.
The downside: it's PHP and security vulnerabilities are a constant risk and worry with that. I just checked we are up to date and don't have this caching plugin installed. However, we have a constant stream of opportunistic bot traffic trying to exploit pretty much every vulnerability ever for wordpress, php, and php related tooling that we aren't even running. So, I'm more than a bit paranoid about any hypothetical way in.