WordPress Hacking & Hardening in Simple Steps

Learn to scan a WordPress site for vulnerabilities using nmap and WPScan, enumerate plugins and versions, and assess brute-force authentication risks and plugin exploits for informed hardening.

Explore exploiting a WordPress plugin to overwrite wp-config, expose database credentials, and deploy a backdoor, using Burp repeater and shell_exec to test remote commands.

Upload a backdoor, establish a reverse shell for an interactive connection, and restore a WordPress site by replacing compromised files with backups.

It demonstrates how attackers abuse a WordPress contact form to send spam, wiring plugins, proxies, and automated emails to bypass protections.

Regularly update WordPress core, plugins, and themes to reduce attack risk. Use the dashboard to view available updates, apply them quickly, and maintain site availability during the process.

Learn why HTTPS secures user–server communication, compare self-signed and trusted SSL certificates, and explore SEO, browser trust signals, and Let's Encrypt options.

Generate rsa 2048 certificates for WordPress site and configure https on apache, including domain or ip, backup config, and enabling ssl while explaining asymmetric and symmetric encryption for secure handshakes.

Learn to obtain and auto renew a free Let's Encrypt certificate, verify domain ownership, and redirect HTTP to HTTPS with a cron-based renewal for simple, ongoing web security.

Discover how to redirect HTTP to HTTPS for your WordPress site using plugins or manual configuration to enforce secure connections and protect SSL setup.

Discover how WordPress security plugins protect sites with strong password enforcement, activity logs, automatic updates, email alerts, two-factor authentication, and firewalls that block malicious IPs.

Explore how the WordFence security plugin protects WordPress sites with real-time firewall and brute‑force protection, monitoring updates and file changes, and enabling two‑factor authentication using Google Authenticator or backup codes.

Demonstrates a simulated brute-force attack on a WordPress site using WPScan, testing a username list and a password dictionary, and showing IP blocking by a brute-force protection plugin.

Enable captcha on login and comments to stop spam on WordPress, using the advanced no-captcha plugin and Google API keys to verify users and deter brute-force attacks.

Discover free tools to scan your site for secure headers and TLS settings, learn which headers to enable, and improve SSL certificates and TLS configurations via plugins or server configuration.

Configure http security headers for WordPress using the ATP headers plugin, enable key headers, and test changes with curl and securityheaders.com to harden sites with authentication, access control, and caching.

Locate the source of spam by tracing a compromised script on a local mail server, enable verbose exim logging, and inspect headers and IPs to identify the attacker.

Discover WordPress vulnerabilities and exploits, and why keeping core and plugins up to date matters. Learn to use WPScan, CVE details, and exploit databases to stay informed.

Learn to harden WordPress security by changing the login URL using a plugin, hiding the login page, and redirecting default paths to make attackers work harder.

Learn how to defend WordPress sites against injection attacks, including SQL injection and URL hacking, by implementing Apache htaccess rules to block malicious inputs and protect database content.

Block access to sensitive WordPress files by configuring htaccess rules to deny directory listing and restrict the WordPress configuration, install scripts, and readme files.

Learn to reduce WordPress admin risk by creating an unpredictable new administrator user and removing old accounts. Enable lockouts for invalid usernames to deter attackers.

The video explains xml-rpc and why disabling it reduces brute-force risk, noting that many sites don’t need it and suggesting checks with WPScan and a free disable plugin.

Hide your WordPress version to reduce exposure to exploits and keep sites up to date; edit theme functions.php or use a premium plugin, noting readme.html applies only pre-5.0.

Learn how distributed denial of service attacks disrupt sites and how to defend with reputable third-party protections like CloudFlare, including proxying to hide IPs and basic mitigation concepts.

Explore common security vulnerabilities in WordPress, including injection, cross site scripting, forgery, and remote file execution of an uploaded backdoor, with practical exploitation insights.

Learn how sql injection tampers user inputs to alter database queries, enumerate tables such as guest and users, and reveal data using techniques like or one equal one, union select, and load_file.

Explore sql injection with sqlmap to identify vulnerable databases, enumerate tables such as users, extract user data and passwords, and simulate database-based privilege escalation.

Explain cross-site scripting mechanisms, including reflected, stored, and DOM-based XSS, and how attackers steal cookies and compromise user sessions with malicious scripts.

Explore reflected cross-eyed scripting, how an attacker injects javascript via a dynamic page parameter, and how stolen cookies enable session hijacking and impersonation.

Learn how stored XSS exploits unsanitized input stored in the backend database, letting JavaScript run in other users' browsers. Craft links and encode payloads to enable cookie theft and impersonation.

This lecture explains cross-site scripting (XSS) techniques to steal cookies and credentials, including social engineering and using BeEF to remotely control browser clients.

Identify the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities in mobile apps with cloud-based tools for static and dynamic analysis. Detect injections, broken access control, XSS, and data exposure.

Learn how insecure file upload and remote file inclusion enable attackers to upload non-image files, execute PHP code, and gain remote control via backdoors or reverse shells on web servers.

Learn how cross-site request forgery exploits a trusted web app to perform unauthorized actions on behalf of an authenticated user, such as changing passwords or making purchases via malicious links.