CO4509 - Introduction of Computer Security

Running head: CO4509 - COMPUTER SECURITY
CO4509 - COMPUTER SECURITY
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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................2
Discussion......................................................................................................................2
Description of wordpress...........................................................................................2
Vulnerabilities of Wordpress.................................................................................4
Description of CVE-2019-17669...............................................................................6
Description of the solutions to this exploit................................................................8
Analysis of future importance and the effectiveness of CVE-2019-17669...............9
Conclusion....................................................................................................................10
References....................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Wordpress could be considered as the content management system that is mainly
based on MySQL and PHP and it is commonly utilised within the database servers of
MariaDB or MySQL but it could also use the SQLite database engine. This report intends to
discuss the software and its various functionalities. The vulnerability of wordpress, CVE-
2019-17669 has been briefly described in this report. The most appropriate solutions for this
exploit has been briefly described in this report. An analysis of the probable future
importance as well as the effectiveness of the CVE-2019-17669 has been provided briefly
described in this report. Lastly, this report concludes with an appropriate conclusion.
Discussion
Description of wordpress
Wordpress could be considered as the content management system that is mainly
based on MySQL and PHP and it is commonly utilised within the database servers of
MariaDB or MySQL but it could also use the SQLite database engine (Rodas-Silva et al.
2019). The main features of the Wordpress involves plugin architecture and the template
system that is referred to the inside Wordpress as the themes. The creation of wordpress was
originally done as the blog-publishing service but in the recent times it has evolved for
supporting the various kinds of web content that includes the conventional mailing sites as
well as the forums, membership sites, media galleries, learning management system as well
as the online stores. Wordpress is presently considered as the most popular content
management system solution that is presently being used for the various purposes (Jones
2018). Wordpress is also been utilised for various kinds of application domains like the
pervasive display systems. For appropriately functioning, Wordpress is required to be
installed primarily on the web server, either as the section of the internet hosting service like

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Wordpress.com or any computer executing software package Wordpress.org for serving as
the network in their respective right. Any particular local computer could effectively be used
for the single-user testing as well as the purposes of learning (Messenlehner and Coleman
2019).
Wordpress has been considered as the factory that is used in the modern times for
making various kinds of webpages, and it is the core analogy that has been designed for
clarifying various functions of Wordpress. It mainly stores the content and it also allows any
user in creating as well as publishing the webpages, needing nothing beyond the domain as
well as the hosting service. Wordpress comprises of the web template system by using the
template processor (Cabot 2018). The architecture of the Wordpress is the front controller,
that routes all the requests for the non-static URLs to any single PHP file that executes the
parsing of the URL and it also recognises their target page. It allows the supporting for the
increasingly human-readable permalinks. The users of Wordpress are provided with the
facility of installing as well as switching among the various themes provided by the software.
The users are provided with the functionality of the changing the main look of the Wordpress
website with the help of the themes deprived of altering the main code or the site content.
Each of the website of Wordpress mainly needs at least one theme in being present as well as
the designing of each of the themes is done with the help of the standards of Wordpress with
the structured PHP, the Cascading Style Sheets and the HyperText Markup Language or
HTML (Barnes 2017).
The plugin architecture of the Wordpress provides the users with the functionality of
extending the functionality as well as the features of any particular blog or website. Presently
Wordpress provides over 55,131 plugins that are available for using and each of the plugins
provides the custom functions as well as the features that allows the users in tailoring the sites
according the particular requirements (Filotrani 2018). Moreover, it does not involve the