WordPress maintenance support plansgeddon2: Should I worry about critical security updates?
John Locke
Thu, 03/29/2020 – 18:00
No, you should not. You should let us worry about them, and go back to your business.
Seriously, we’re getting questions from all kinds of people about whether this matters. I’m a bit surprised that there is any question about that. Would you be concerned if your top salesperson was selling for somebody else? If your cashiers were jotting down credit card numbers when they charged a card? If your office became a well-known spot for illicit drug or gun dealers? If your office had a bunch of scammers squatting and running a pyramid scheme? If your confidential client information could be revealed as easily as using a bic pen on an old Kryptonite lock?
Bic Pen vs Kryptonite LockWe’ve seen some variation of every single one of those scenarios. And all of them are possible with a remote code execution flaw in a web application, like yesterday’s WordPress maintenance support plans security vulnerability.
And yet people still
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