Is it possible to hack WordPress

by gotty

Posted: 10 years ago 12 replies

PROGRAMMING

I have a membership site and am also a member of a membership website.
I wanted to know if it is possible to stay logged in "forever"
or become a administrator after my period is up?

#hack #wordpress

yasar 10 years ago

if you in a member of one site that site adminitrator can acceess you account change your login credential via database
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eluminoustechnologies 10 years ago

You can do that easily following the above instructions but not sure if it will secured. It's a WordPress site afterall.
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Arshid 10 years ago

Brute force attack is easy in WordPress .
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- KarlaValeria 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Arshid
  
  Brute force attack is easy in WordPress .
  
  Is very difficult to success witha force attack i you have a long password with Capital letters and signs
  
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wasim12378 10 years ago

Yes hacking wordpress is quite easy then the other CMS System .... because it uses the same tables names for database it has the config file on the root and all directories are accessible ... but there are many plugins to make WordPress a lot secure
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Arshid 10 years ago

WordPress website can easily hack.. Various tools are available for hacking. Most of the famous plugins are vulnerable.
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zotohost 10 years ago

It depends & there is no generic answer to it. If you have old plugin with some venerability then it's possible.
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Yvon Boulianne 10 years ago

ok, here's the reality
Everything can be hacked BUT the more you are skillful the less you can be hack...
Put some security module in your wordpress and make sure to restrain the number of login should eliminate 99.9999999% of the danger
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FarNext 10 years ago

You will always have the option to restore your website backup. Get into the habit of taking backups of your website. Regarding your website members or their emails, they will be of no use to the hacker since, you have developed relationship with them not the hacker. For the hacker, they will be just another cold list.

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lucyberrette 10 years ago

WordPress is vulnerable to hackers due to some laps in the security by the users. Let me clear, there are few things like default username, poor password, old version of WP etc. are the main reasons which causes the dent in the security of WP and attracts hackers to your site.
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rikshaw Banned 10 years ago

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- Joe Ray 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by rikshaw
  
  If you install "IP Filter" or "Limit Login Attempts" in your wordpress website i think its difficult to hack a wordpress website.
  
  That won't help. Many of the most popular plugins are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to the misuse of the add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg() functions.
  
  These plugins were vulnerable earlier this year, I think they fixed this vulnerability now but every year they find a new vulnerability with the plugins.
  
  The problem is that they only find these vulnerabilities after tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Wordpress sites have been hacked.
  
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marketingfreak Banned 10 years ago

It's very easy to hack Wordpress as its a CMS and a small server you can say it can be hacked very easily if a professional hacker tries to hack it... The PHP cannot be hacked as its the custom language and there are many restrictions on PHP which can be implemented to stop hacking it's very difficult to be hacked...
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