AI just found a serious hole in WordPress. Your website shouldn't be yours to worry about.

This week brought a rough headline for a huge share of the web. Security researchers found a serious flaw in WordPress, the software that runs a large slice of the world's websites, that lets an attacker break into a site with no password and no warning. It affects even sites that have no extra add-ons installed, and attackers began using it almost immediately. If your website runs on WordPress, this was a drop-everything-and-update-it week.

Here is the part worth paying attention to: the researchers found the hole using AI, the same kind of technology behind ChatGPT. And it was not a one-off. Earlier this year, one automated system turned up more than three hundred brand-new website security holes in about three days. AI has made finding these weaknesses faster and cheaper than ever, which means the pace is not going to slow down.

Why this keeps happening

None of this means WordPress is bad software. A website that is carefully looked after, by someone who watches for these warnings and applies every fix within hours, can be perfectly safe. The trouble is that most small organizations do not have that person. The fire department, the corner shop, the church office: they have a website because they need one, not because someone on the team is reading security bulletins on a Friday night.

So the update sits. The warning email gets missed. And a site that was fine on Thursday is a problem by the weekend, through no fault of anyone who works there.

The safest website is one you never have to patch

This is the whole idea behind how Mainfolk works. Your Mainfolk site is built for you and kept up to date for you. There is nothing on it for an attacker to pry open the way this week's hole works, and when something anywhere in the platform needs fixing, we fix it once, for every site, right away. You do not get the emergency email. You do not spend your weekend on it. Keeping the site secure and current is simply our job, not one more thing on your desk.

That is what "fully managed" actually means: not a feature you switch on, but the quiet default. The people who run these places should be running them, not babysitting a website.

Already on WordPress? Moving over is now one click

If reading this made you tired of the update treadmill, you do not have to stay on it. We built a free tool that moves your WordPress site to Mainfolk in a single click. It brings your pages, your posts, your menu, and your logo across and rebuilds them as a clean, modern site you can edit yourself. Your existing WordPress site keeps running exactly as it is while you look everything over, so there is no risk in trying it.

See how the one-click move works →

You should not have to become a security expert to keep a simple website safe. With Mainfolk you do not, and everything is included for one honest, flat price. See what that costs.