[wp-hackers] WordPress Should Delete WP Version information on head

Sinan sinan at sinanisler.com
Tue Mar 19 16:58:29 UTC 2013


@Marko Heijnen

I dont have respond to that.


2013/3/19 Marko Heijnen <mailing at markoheijnen.nl>

> This isn't a security risk at all. If you think bots check your version
> then you are wrong. Also WordPress isn't the security risk. The plugin you
> are using are.
>
> Op 19 mrt. 2013, om 17:52 heeft Dobri <dyordan1 at ramapo.edu> het volgende
> geschreven:
>
> > I think that exists for Search Engine Penetration and keeping track of
> market penetration as well. Simply put, it makes tracking % of people using
> WordPress and a specific version of WordPress and while it's true that's a
> bit of a security risk (for some setups more than for others), it also
> helps developers of both WP core and plugins/themes. In that respect, I
> think it should stay there and people should be individually responsible
> for hiding it if they *know* they have an old version that's susceptible to
> attacks and they have a good reason for keeping it. Cheers!
> >
> > P.S. As already pointed out, it's really easy to remove if need be.
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, at 12:48 PM, Sinan wrote:
> >
> >> WordPress Should Delete WP Version information on head
> >> if this is so important there is so many ways to learn who using what
> vesio
> >> n of. But this public version reading is not safe.
> >>
> >> Some times coming big security problems and when this problems match our
> >> versions bots or bad guys easly hack the sites.
> >>
> >> What you guys thinking about this ?
> >>
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