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by peterwwillis 3806 days ago
Even considering Wordpress probably makes up 50% of the compromised sites on the internet, due to its terrible security track record and that nobody patches their own blogs?
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You can get auto-updates and we do a pretty good job of protecting WP sites. But the situation is dire. A survey we did recently showed that 38.9% of respondents (out of over 7000 WP site admins) were hacked within the past 12 months.

https://www.wordfence.com/learn/2015-wordpress-security-surv...

Heavy selection bias.
Wordpress auto-updates. Most exploits are in plugins.