Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #23394, comment 12
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Ticket #23394, comment 12
initial v1 2 2 3 3 4 Give the [https://wpvulndb.com/wordpresses sheer number of security vulnerabilities] that WordPress has had in the last two years, and changes in cybersecurity and increasing occurrences of hacking that have happened in the last 3 years, I think ''it's definitely time to reopen this topic'', and to start taking a more aggressive approach to WordPress security.4 Given the [https://wpvulndb.com/wordpresses sheer number of security vulnerabilities] that WordPress has had in the last two years, and changes in cybersecurity and increasing occurrences of hacking that have happened in the last 3 years, I think ''it's definitely time to reopen this topic'', and to start taking a more aggressive approach to WordPress security. 5 5 6 6 While not the most important security flaw, it is still a poor security practice to reveal software version numbers in web software. If you want to hack a site, the first thing you want is to get the type of software and version number. This is known as fingerprinting.