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12 October 2006 35 Comments

WordPress Plugin Security: Less is More

As I continue in my ongoing series on plugin security for WordPress, I’m going to diverge off the mapped out route and organically grow this series a little more. Hopefully it suits Podz and WordPress users everywhere. To reiterate, this series is designed for the non-developer, the “average guy” so to speak. Security is a [...]

10 October 2006 2 Comments

WordPress Plugin Security: Dangerous Combinations

I have wrestled with this question since the last entry in this series about WordPress plugin security. As I know this series will be used as a resource for the larger WordPress community, I think it’s necessary to abstract these issues enough that average non-technical users can understand and that doesn’t single out a single [...]

28 September 2006 1 Comment

WordPress Plugin Security: What is Dangerous?

Earlier this week, I began a series on WordPress plugin security. We established that the golden rule of web security is to check the “gateways”. That is, watch the areas of a website that an attacker can use to send data to your website. I’d like to elaborate more on this today.
WordPress support maven, Podz, [...]