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by dschiffner 1482 days ago
his admin creds were probably

admin / abcd123!
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waynesonfire 1482 days ago
Guessing passwords? You don't even have to try that hard. Have you seen the list of WordPress CVEs?

Here is one just from January of this year,

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5039

"Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform SQL injection, run unchecked SQL queries, bypass hardening, or perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks."

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dschiffner 1482 days ago
Sure have! Mentioning the admin creds were more so tongue in cheek because there are a lot of folks who use the default 'admin' username.
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