How to avoid being one of the 73% of WordPress sites vulnerable to attack

A recent investigation has concluded that 73% of the 40,000 most popular websites that use WordPress software are vulnerable to attack. The research was carried out by vulnerability researchers EnableSecurity and reported by WordPress security outfit WP WhiteSecurity. The first rule of WordPress security is always run the latest version of the CMS. There are common security strategies that the researchers didnt test for, not least using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) that can put up a protective shield in front of vulnerable websites.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/09/27/how-to-avoid-being-one-of-the-73-of-wordpress-sites-vulnerable-to-attack/