Hardening WordPress is kind of Art

Update presentation I did at WordCamp Utrecht 2017, Netherlands

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2. Hardening WordPress is kind of Art
3. Who am I Chathu Vishwajith Auth0 Ambassador Co-Founder of a startup
4. Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia
5. Is WordPress is secure? → 52% are from WordPress plugins → 37% are from core WordPress → 11% are from WordPress themes
6. Recent incidents
7. Recent Incidents → bbPress → Shortcodes Ultimate → Formidable Forms → Duplicator → Yoast SEO 5.7.1 → WordPress Security Update 4.8.2 – Update Immediately! → WordPress 4.9
8. Types of vulnerabilities → SQL Injection (SQLI) → Cross-site Scripting (XSS) → Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) → Brute Force → Denial of Service (DoS) → Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) → Full Path Disclosure (FPD) → User Enumeration → Remote Code Execution (RCE) → Remote File Inclusion (RFI) → Directory Traversal
9. So what is the Art
10. Continuous improvements
11. Find a secured hosting
12. Don’t forget to update!
13. Don’t forget to update! → Keep your WordPress up-to-date → Update your plugins and themes → Change passwords periodically → Keep yourself updated
14. Use your own, not defaults!
15. Use your own, not defaults! → Do not use ‘admin’ as your username → Change WP_CONFIG’s keys and salt values to randomly generated values → Change table prefix
16. Stop directory indexing
17. Prevent User emumaration
18. Disable XML-RPC if not using
19. Limit login failed attempts
20. Backup regularly
21. Use Two Factor Authentication
22. Remove unused plugins/themes
23. Turn on Comments approval
24. Use HTTPS! Atleast wp-admin area and wp-login.php
25. Make sure Debugging is off!
26. Apache, PHP, NGINX, SSL Vulnerabilities
27. WordPress Vulnerability Database https://wpvulndb.com
28. WordPress Vulnerability Scanner https://github.com/RamadhanAmizudin/ Wordpress-scanner
30. Summery → Don’t forget to update. → Use your own rather defaults. → Stop directory traversal. → Disable XML-RPC if you are not using it. → Limit login attempts. → Backup regularly → Remove unused plugins/themes → Keep yourself updated
31. From Holland Artist
32. Thank you