---
title: "Top 7 WordPress Security Threats and How to Fix Them"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-7-wordpress-security-threats-and-how-to-fix-them-to86x44pc
source_url: https://www.keycdn.com/blog/wordpress-security-threats
type: article
source: "keycdn"
published: 2023-08-29T06:40:09.844Z
updated: 2023-08-29T06:39:45.694Z
tags: ["database", "sql", "wordpress"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Top 7 WordPress Security Threats and How to Fix Them

**[keycdn](https://daily.dev/sources/keycdn)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) on the Internet today. There are around 810 million sites running on WordPress, and around half of those are hosted on the free WordPress.com site. Hackers love to go in through the backdoor of your WP site and attempt to set up residence there.

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