Banks operate under the watchful eye of regulators who equate a public website outage—or worse, a compromise—with an operational-risk event. Yet many institutions still consider popular open-source content-management systems (CMSs) because they appear cheap, flexible, and familiar to marketing teams. Below, we dig into three market-leading CMS platforms—WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla—and show why each carries vulnerabilities and attack patterns that make them a poor fit for financial-services compliance requirements.
SecurityOpen-Source CMSs Under the Microscope: Why WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla Are Too Risky for Bank Websites
