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> If you know what you're doing, WordPress fine.

Probably true, but for whatever reason Wordpress seems to attract an awful lot of people that do not know what they are doing

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Anecdote: we contracted a web page, and the guy started saying "it would be a Wordpress. It has very bad press, but it's because it is widely used". Ok, we start developing in the latest version of php, and soon he say "we have to go down a couple phpversions, because x pluging don't work in the latest". Requested version had a dozen critical CVEs. Plugin in question did something really basic, like a preview card with OpenGraph data, or something like that. Something a junior could code in a day.

And that is insecure Wordpress: people lego-mounting sites without touching code, only with plugins.

> And that is insecure Wordpress: people lego-mounting sites without touching code, only with plugins.

Works as intended, that's why WP has been so popular

Pros: it has a low entry barrier

Cons: it has a low entry barrier

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