Do you really want to trust getting your "news" from a website that still uses PHP 5.x?
You aren't even using an intermediate CDN caching layer.
Amateur hour over at OANN.
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The site is now throwing backend 503 errors. For the record, I did nothing illegal -- all information I provided is publicly available via their response headers and DNS information.
(Just want to make that clear)
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That's not necessarily a bad thing. Configured correctly, WP is just fine.
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I'm more concerned that they haven't configured their server to hide versions than that specific version. This tells me that they are likely using 100% default installations and that means default vulnerabilities.
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EOL for PHP 5.6 was 2018. And there is a list of known vulnerabilities.
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Hmm. Usually you're so positive. I didn't expect you to openly shame companies for tech choices. It's not like customers care what runs it.
Seems like they'd be pretty vulnerable if someone were to, say, DDoS them...
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