Scan your WordPress blog for vulnerabilities
Site owners should always be aware of the possibility that their blog gets compromised. This can be because of an old version of WordPress that is installed or because of vulnerabilities in plugins or themes.It is not that difficult to stay up to date in regards to the blogging software itself and themes or plugins that are installed as additional features. While that takes care of some attack vectors, it still does not mean that the blog is completely safe from being compromised.
The online security script WordPress Scanner is a great tool which you can use to scan your WordPress blog for outdated files and other vulnerabilities. All you need to do is add a single line of code to the header of your blog so that the WordPress Scanner cgi script can access the information and knows that you are indeed the owner of the blog.
This tool is not perfect but it analyzes the version of your WordPress files which is probably the dominant attack vector when it comes to WordPress hacking and basic XSS vulnerabilities in the themes. The tool gives advice if vulnerabilities have been found on how to fix them.
Just make sure you run the script, follow the guidelines and remove the wpscanner entry from your header again. You would not want someone else to use the same tool to find out about vulnerabilities that you have not fixed yet, would not you? This is a great little script which should become even better when the author adds checks for plugins.
Update: The script does not seem to be available anymore. You can use a different plugin for WordPress like Exploit Scanner instead which offers the advantage that you can install it as any other plugin in WordPress, so that no one can come along and use it to find out about potential vulnerabilities.
You can install the plugin from the admin dashboard or, if you prefer it that way, manually by uploading it to the plugin directory of your blog on the server it is running on.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.