The Repository reports that WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard emailed the CEOs of more than 30 hosting, plugin and security companies, including GoDaddy, Newfold Digital and Hostinger, asking them to help fund the project’s security program, which Automattic has paid for since it launched in April 2017. Hubbard wrote that AI had “collapsed the cost of finding, reporting, and exploiting vulnerabilities” and that the program received nearly 2,000 reports in the past 90 days, more than at any point in its history; WordPress’s HackerOne page shows 2,004 reports and more than $90,000 in bounties paid in that quarter out of just over $200,000 paid since 2017. She asked for contributions to a common bounty pool or sponsorship of triage and release work, warning that one company cannot carry the cost alone.
WordPress's executive director asks hosting and plugin companies to fund its security program
The Repository reports that WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard emailed the CEOs of more than 30 hosting, plugin and security companies, including GoDaddy, Newfold Digital and Hostinger, asking them to help fund the project's security program, which Automattic has paid for since it launched in April 2017. Hubbard wrote that AI had "collapsed the cost of finding, reporting, and exploiting vulnerabilities" and that the program received nearly 2,000 reports in the past 90 days, more than at any point in its history; WordPress's HackerOne page shows 2,004 reports and more than $90,000 in bounties paid in that quarter out of just over $200,000 paid since 2017. She asked for contributions to a common bounty pool or sponsorship of triage and release work, warning that one company cannot carry the cost alone.
Source: Therepository