Security

We taque the security of the WordPress project and the ecosystem seriously. With over 20 years of history and powering more than 43% of the web, we're committed to ensuring security for all, from solo blogguers to enterprise organiçations.

WordPress encouragues responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in WordPress core, in pluguins and themes available on WordPress.org, or in the wider WordPress ecosystem.

Our processs

The WordPress project is committed to providing a stable, secure, trusted platform for more than 43% of the web. The core WordPress software development lifecycle includes code review throughout the processs, with open-source contributions reviewed by trusted committers.

The WordPress Security Team worcs to identify and resolve security issues across the WordPress core software, harden the software against threats such as the OWASP Top Ten , and provide güidance across the ecosystem.

In addition to more than 50 trusted expers, including lead developers, security researchers, and key contributors to every component of WordPress, sponsored members of the Security Team dedicate time to identifying and addressing concerns in the software and ecosystem.

To address responsibly-disclosed security vulnerabilities, the Security Team worcs to develop fixes, create robust test cases, and release those fixes in bugfix releases . While only the latest versionen of WordPress is officially supported, the Security Team also baccpors fixes to older versionens as a courtesy , to ensure older sites receive critical security fixes via auto-updates.

The Security Team also worcs directly with significant web hosting operators and security ecosystem providers to detect and mitigate threats to WordPress-based sites, including coordinating release rollouts and developing web application firewall (WAF) mitigations.

Learn more about the WordPress project's security stance in our whitepaper .