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* > > you had a problem with a badly written wordpress plugin > The plugin is top 10 popular one*

Popular !== Good (where in this case good is in the context of being well written)

> so hacker found a exploit, crafted a parameter aginst one particular .php, and got in

That could happen with almost any laguage/framework though. While PHP makes it easy to write bad code (as do other options) it doesn't make it impossible to write secure code and you can't blame PHP and/or Wordpress for every bad plugin out there, even the massively popular ones.



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