Posted on 02/06/2015 9:21:24 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thousands of WordPress Sites Affected By Zero-Day Exploit
Thanks to a vulnerability in a WordPress plug-in, thousands of websites are at risk of being exploited.
The flaw exists in Fancybox, a popular image displaying tool, through which Sucuri researchers say malware or any other script can be added to a vulnerable site. "It's being actively exploited in the wild, leading to many compromised websites," the researchers wrote.
fyi
Ping.
Vulnerability in FancyBox Plugin for WordPress – Update immediately
http://www.wordfence.com/blog/2015/02/vulnerability-fancybox-plugin-wordpress-update-immediately/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/
I am moving away from word press. Too many flaws and vulnerabilities. I had several sites down for days because of a bad auto update that triggered my host (a bad host) to suspend my account because of CPU usage. It was costly.
“...moving away from word press...”
So what will you go to instead of WP?
I built a site with WordPress and then reparked the site because of some errors (I apparently made) in the building of the site. So now my Dream Host site is parked again and I was thinking about rebuilding with WP but using a different template.
I just responded to your freepmail before seeing this.
I don’t know.
I like WP and have worked on mine and ones for other businesses. I am worried about security with all the plugins and themes. I tried to start reducing those in projects I still have control over. I should have known better from the start, but I was like a kid in a candy shop.
If you are selling online, you really need an ecart package. I have used zen, prestashop and opencart. Opencart being my favorite.
You can use any of these to build a full featured site. They have templates, too. My site that I sent you has not been worked on in years. I moved to other things and only do a little maintenance on it. It could look a lot better, but not enough time. :-)
Most of the sites I build are from ground up and use a lot of jquery and angularjs.
ex. http://www.quotelight.com
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