Out-of-date WordPress sites will get hacked

Posted December 16th, 2014 in Tales From the Support Team. Tags: , .

I’m going to use annoyingly big type, on an annoying yellow background, because it’s important:

If you use WordPress, you MUST update your plugins and themes whenever you see that an update is available. If you don’t, your site will eventually be “hacked” because of a security bug in old software. The contents of your site will be replaced with something malicious, and your e-mail will be used to send offensive spam.

We have a page with more information, including:

  • why this is a problem
  • why it would happen to your site in particular
  • the two most common ways sites get hacked
  • the risks of not fixing it
  • the risks of inactive plugins and themes
  • the steps to update WordPress properly

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