Comment on Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days agoWord press code, and plugins, do not sanitize out of the box. You have to call an additional function, each time, that is not provided automatically. Many home made plugins miss that; many popular plugins used to be home made ones
PixelTron@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Wordpress is a sin against mankind.
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Let’s take a blog and slap a whole e-commerce system on it through a plugin and let it auto translate with another one, what could go wrong. wait why is everything so slow, oh i need additional plugins for caching and one more for functionality XYZ why is everything broken now?!?
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Maybe your app is based on WordPress :'D
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Yet here we are, it and the plugins handle too much of my daily traffic. It’s easy to dismiss the piss poor coding, but is done at our peril.
Everyone of us has personal data stored in those God awful plugins, in their thousands of basic security holes