Can your defenses prevent WordPress vulnerability exploits?
If you're a hosting provider relying on network and server level defences to mitigate WordPress vulnerabilities, then most likely they are not working. We can show that with a simple pentest.
Patchstack
- WordPress application logic
- User permissions & roles
- Plugin versions and vulnerabilities
- Complete WordPress context
Traditional WAF
- HTTP traffic patterns
- Generic request signatures
- Network-level data
- WordPress context
74% of hosting defenses fail against vulnerabilities
In the pilot pentest program on five different hosting providers, we found that 74% of vulnerability exploits succeeded in gaining admin access on target sites without being seen by services like Cloudflare, Imunify360 and Monarx.
This finding supports the layered security principle in cybersecurity — while each of these services has big security benefits, they are not suitable for dealing with application-layer threats.
Read the case study| Comparison | Patchstack | Imunify360 | Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security layer | Application-level | Server-level WAF | Network-level WAF |
| Method | Combination of WAF, SCA, threat intelligence and dynamic rule deployment | Pattern-based rules | Signature-based filtering |
| Mitigation rules | 12,640specific rules | Limited | Limited |
| Precision | Highly targeted and deployed only-on demand saving you resources | Generic, all rules deployed even if not needed | Generic, all rules deployed even if not needed |
| Speed to new rules | Instantly, deployed in real-time | Slower (rule updates depend on vendor cycles) | Slowest (rules need to be optimized to reduce false positives) |
| False positives | None | Medium (generic rules) | Medium (broad filtering) |
| Performance impact | None | Low to moderate | Low to moderate |
| Visibility into application |  | Limited |  |
| Session awareness | | | |
| User auth awareness | | | |
🥷 Free audit: how good are your defenses?
Evidence will speak for itself — we'll test your defenses and you'll have full visibility into the details of the setup. This way you'll know we use standard vulnerability exploits without any funny business to trick your defenses.