WordPress’ WSOD protection feature appears half-baked, Garners security doubts

guest · Jan 25, 2019

WordPress’ WSOD protection feature appears half-baked, Garners security doubts
January 25, 2019
https://cyware.com/news/wordpress-w...s-half-baked-garners-security-doubts-06eeaf9c

As the name suggests, the ‘White Screen Of Death’ error simply replaces a WordPress site with a blank white screen.
Designated as ‘WSOD Protection’, the feature allows a website owner to recover from crashes. However, developers hint that WSOD Protection might actually lead to security vulnerabilities in WordPress.
Weak protection
As explained in an article by ZDNet, the aim of WSOD Protection was actually to facilitate easy migration to PHP 7.x servers. As more improvements were made over a period, security researchers saw many flaws showing up in the feature.

Mihajloski contends that when WSOD Protection comes into the picture, it will only pause the plugin following which attackers can even disable firewalls, two-factor authentication, brute-force prevention, and other security plugins.
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