{"id":16268,"date":"2024-04-28T11:45:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T09:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=16268"},"modified":"2024-04-28T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T09:59:34","slug":"theme-security-for-a-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/28\/theme-security-for-a-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme security for a WordPress site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is a fact of life on the Internet that hackers are roaming continuously in search for a chance to apply their knowledge to abuse your web site. Recently, I had the occasion of noticing an opportunity that I should not have let happening on Roumazeilles.net<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My web site is using WordPress as the &#8220;engine&#8221; to build a convenient and efficient site. WordPress happens to be using &#8220;themes&#8221; to appropriately display the contents (that is what is differentiating each WP website from the others). This capacity has helped develop a thriving community of themes, some being free, some being purchased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main trouble is that themes like any other piece of software are susceptible to bugs and could be exploited by hackers. I recently noticed that my (previous) theme was clearly outdated (not updated in the last 24 months) and including some <em>known<\/em> security issues leaving it open to abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Where to check your web site?<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immuniweb.com\/websec\/\">https:\/\/www.immuniweb.com\/websec\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesson learned: Do not use any piece of software (including a WP theme) if it is not actively supported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Application: I decided to drop the free (and unsafe) theme I was using. I swithed other to one of the &#8220;official&#8221; themes from WordPress.org. And I am learning to configure it properly. Hence the changes you can currently observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a fact of life on the Internet that hackers are roaming continuously in search for a chance to apply their knowledge to abuse your web site. Recently, I had the occasion of noticing an opportunity that I should not have let happening on Roumazeilles.net My web site is using WordPress as the &#8220;engine&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,37,38,2],"tags":[2317,2236],"class_list":["post-16268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-create-a-web-site","category-new-web-site","category-wordpress","tag-web-site","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16271,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268\/revisions\/16271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}