{"id":11176,"date":"2016-11-24T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T07:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/blog\/saas-web-websites-secure-despite-cardinal-error-in-wordpress-update-server\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:15:29","slug":"saas-web-websites-secure-despite-cardinal-error-in-wordpress-update-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/blog\/saas-web-websites-secure-despite-cardinal-error-in-wordpress-update-server\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS Web Websites Secure Despite &#8220;Cardinal Error&#8221; in WordPress Update Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to the default configuration, auto-updates are disabled for WordPress instances managed by SaaS Web. This is because we at SaaS Web take management seriously; nothing should happen automatically without our intervention&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>This configuration line can be added to the wp-config.php file:<br \/>\n<code>define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Here is the original report about the error, which has since been fixed:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/hacking-27-web-via-wordpress-auto-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/hacking-27-web-via-wordpress-auto-update\/<\/a><br \/>\nAlternatively, here is the Heise report:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/Kardinalfehler-im-WordPress-Update-Server-27-Prozent-aller-Webseiten-sollen-gefaehrdet-gewesen-sein-3496780.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/Kardinalfehler-im-WordPress-Update-Server-27-Prozent-aller-Webseiten-sollen-gefaehrdet-gewesen-sein-3496780.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to the default configuration, auto-updates are disabled for WordPress instances managed by SaaS Web. This is because we at SaaS Web take management seriously; nothing should happen automatically without our intervention&#8230; This configuration line can be added to the wp-config.php file: define( &#8216;AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED&#8217;, true ); Here is the original report about the error, which \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[877],"tags":[2006,2066,819],"class_list":["post-11176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saas-web-info","tag-auto-update","tag-wordfence","tag-wordpress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}