WordPress security can feel intimidating even to those who have been working in the industry for some time. Both threats and technologies are developing and advancing at unprecedented rates, making it challenging to keep up.
If you have been researching WordPress security plugins but keep getting lost in acronyms and technical jargon, this page is for you. Here you’ll find an ever-increasing list of technical terms with concise explanations to help you stay at the top of your game.
- Activity Log (audit trail)
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Backdoor
- Blacklist
- Browser cookie
- Brute force attack
- Capabilities
- Cross-site scripting
- Defacement
- Denial of service
- Directory listing
- Exploit
- Firewall
- Fuzzer / fuzzing
- Hijacked
- htaccess file
- HTTP cookie
- Information disclosure
- Malware
- Man in the middle attack
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Permissions
- Phishing attack
- Principle of least privilege
- Privilege escalation
- Privileges
- Proof of concept
- Scam
- Security advisory
- Security hardening
- Security scan
- Signature-based scanning
- Source code audit
- SQL Injection
- Trojan
- Two-factor authentication (2FA)
- User roles
- Virus
- VPN
- Vulnerability
- Whitelist
- WordPress firewall / web application firewall (WAF)
- Zero-day vulnerability
