We’ve spent years building the most secure CMS of 2023. Open-source CMS platforms like WordPress and Drupal mean everyone has access to your code, and that means your website is completely vulnerable. Think about it: There are millions of instances of WordPress in the world, and every security update and feature upgrade — no matter how big or small — has to be manually performed for each individual site to avoid outright breaking custom code, plugins, and more. On WordPress, you need a plugin to manage simple things, but those seemingly safe tasks can put your entire site at risk. For example, a plugin to manage affiliate links gave hackers an easy opening to add their own links instead. Examples like these leave open-source CMS options like WordPress constantly vulnerable to security threats. If you are running a real online business, easily exposed features like plugins are a 2005-era feature that now serve as a major weakness on your site. Security threats created by outdated plugins can put hundreds of thousands of sites at risk, like this breach in 2022 that threatened the safety of 600,000 sites. More recently, approximately five million WordPress sites were updated to resolve a significant vulnerability introduced back in 2012. Jetpack, a WordPress plugin developed and maintained by Automattic, offers a range of security safeguards and is among the most widely used plugins for the WordPress content management system. In May 2023, Automattic made an official announcement regarding the rollout of a critical security update. This update addresses a vulnerability that affects all versions of the Jetpack plugin since its release of version 2.0. These constant, sudden spikes in attacks have no end sight, and here's why.