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Things I’d want to see improved in WordPress core

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Re: Things I’d want to see improved in WordPress core

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Port it to a modern language so PHP can finally die, add support for PostgreSQL and MS SQL

If all you're worried about is Core: https://apps.peachpie.io/Item?id=PeachPied.WordPress.AspNetC...

> All of WordPress as a .NET Standard assembly, without PHP.

Mentions both performance and security benefits.

Re: Things I’d want to see improved in WordPress core

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

was it due to the core or a plugin?

his admin creds were probably admin / abcd123!

Guessing passwords? You don't even have to try that hard. Have you seen the list of WordPress CVEs?

Here is one just from January of this year,

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5039

"Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform SQL injection, run unchecked SQL queries, bypass hardening, or perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks."

Re: Things I’d want to see improved in WordPress core

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I would like as much as possible of the php source moved out of the webroot. e.g. to ../

All day long bots are firing queries and POSTs at any and all php files causing massive server load and security headaches.

Just include them from the core and route to them via the core, taking care of sanitation in the process preferably.

Re: Things I’d want to see improved in WordPress core

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

his admin creds were probably admin / abcd123!

Guessing passwords? You don't even have to try that hard. Have you seen the list of WordPress CVEs? Here is one just from January of this year, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5039 "Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform SQL injection, run unchecked SQL queries, bypass hardening, or perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks."

Sure have! Mentioning the admin creds were more so tongue in cheek because there are a lot of folks who use the default 'admin' username.
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