A common situation for most Content Management Systems is that the WebSite database table prefixes are always defaulted to a certain value. This is a very common security vulnerability and should be changed immediately as we have done to secure the Press Pixels WordPress WebSite. This guide on how to secure and change your table prefix below is written for WordPress but can be applied to any CMS databases out there, just use your own set prefix instead of the WordPress predefined prefix specified below.
Bad Prefix.
By default WordPress installations sets “wp_” as a prefix for each WordPress table name. Since this is a known vulnerability, malicious users can exploit your data easily. If your table prefix is “wp_” or “wp1_” or even “wordpress_”, then changing it will bring your WordPress site security to a higher level. Read more…
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