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[Mike McGrath]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, seth vidal wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 19:32 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> > Ok one thing to find out on this.. is what is the security aspects of
> > using wordpress. I am probably not the person to mention this as I
> > partially flamed a Red Hat employee earlier this month about their
> > views on WordPress.. but it would be good to make sure that it isnt
> > going to be a problem security wise.
> >
>
> wordpress is actively maintained and widely used. It has a security
> track record of all php programs but it also has a good record of quick
> turn around times for issues.
>

Additionally, mod_security will help is deal with 0day exploits and some
other things.  I think wordpress has an ok security record but thats by
reputation, not research, anyone have a moment to look and post to the
list?

	-Mike