WordPress Vulnerability Assessment

WordPress powers over 43% of all websites on the Internet and holds 64.2% of the CMS market share. It handles complex tasks such as credit card payments and stores sensitive information about your business and customers. Our WordPress Vulnerability Assessment is a service that provides comprehensive WordPress-specific testing on all WordPress components and server-specific configurations. We return a user-friendly and accurate report that you can use to remediate vulnerabilities and harden your hosting environment.

Why we need better WordPress security

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What differentiates WordPress from other websites?

WordPress is open-source software.
This openness has led to a vast community of developers, designers, and users contributing to its growth and evolution.
WordPress is also a Content Management System (CMS), allowing users to create, edit, and manage content without requiring extensive technical knowledge.
This makes it an accessible platform for individuals and organizations to create and maintain their online presence.
WordPress also offers high customizability, with thousands of free and paid themes, plugins, and widgets available to enhance its functionality and design.

The benefits of our service

Our WordPress Vulnerability Assessment aims to identify potential security weaknesses within the target WordPress website and provide recommendations for mitigating the identified vulnerabilities.

Where other services only check against WordPress-specific components, we thoroughly assess the entire hosting ecosystem, ensuring that your risk surface is as minimal as possible.

Service features

When you request our WordPress website vulnerability assessment, this is what you can expect:

No access or credentials to your website or server are required.
Fast report delivery in a self-contained HTML (recommended option) or PDF document.
End-to-end encryption for data storage and transmission.
Compliance with data protection regulations (CCPA, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR).

Included in the report:

WordPress-specific components

We test WordPress-specific components such as core, themes, and plugins.
WordPress additional components

We test additional WordPress components, such as the presence of configuration backups, and perform user enumeration.
Context

We prioritize our tests based on live statistics on the highest risk of vulnerabilities.
Server configuration

We test your WordPress server configuration to detect misconfigurations and known configurations.
Vulnerability databases

We check our results against five vulnerability databases for accuracy, references, and remediation instructions.
Best practices

We provide security best practices, tips, and tricks for each testing area to protect your website.
SOC2 Compliance

Our report includes a plan to include WordPress security routines for SOC2 compliance.
Lifecycle use cases

Our reports also include advice on common lifecycle use cases, such as maintaining security during a host migration or maintaining an outdated theme or plugin version.

Terms and Conditions

Pre-requisites

Proof of ownership

You must prove that you are the website owner for which you are requesting the service OR that you have the owner’s permission to request the service on their behalf.

Grant permission

You must grant Negative PID explicit permission to conduct a security assessment on the specified website.

Allowlist

For an accurate report, you’ll need to add our IP address to your allowlist while the assessment takes place.

If a third party hosts the website, please let them know before the assessment and ask them to add our IP address to their allowlist while performing the testing.

PRICING

How pricing works

Our pricing differs for commercial (business) and non-commercial websites (non-profit organizations or individuals not registered as a business).

Commercial pricing depends on several factors, including, but not limited to, the country you’re in, the complexity of the website’s structure, the number of subdomains, the number of TLD (top level domains) to be assessed, and the frequency of the assessment.

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