Re: What is the threat on WordPress User

[Henri Salo <henri () nerv fi>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:16:10PM +1000, Gautam wrote:
> I am building a small WordPress blog, i think i have done all that is
> required from security point of view however recently i notice that
> there some of fake user registration.

You should definitely keep your WordPress-instance updated and remember to update plugins as well. Most of our actual 
attacks against WordPress-installations has been done using known plugin vulnerabilities. Usually plugin with small 
amount of users is less maintained and contains crappier code. All of the plugins are in SVN btw: 
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/

- Henri Salo

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