Today many web developers using frameworks, cms, or other website builder to build their own sites. But between their ease of access and level of usage, don’t forget about security issues.
Security issues usually consider as parts of hardware issues such as physical server and Operating system interference or any related IT environment issues. But the software itself are not entirely safe from attack. As an example, lets try to review some cms (content management system) such as Drupal and Joomla.
Security issues for CMSs like Drupal and Joomla fall into several main categories:
1. “Core code”
The modules you get when you download/install Drupal or Joomla, as developed by the team.
2. Third-party extensions
Add-ons written by Drupal/Joomla developers, made available to others (either free or for a price, depending), typically through central directories
3. Custom per-site coding
Done by design firms and other developers (who might also be the “customer”)
4. Admin configuration and other settings
Setting access permissions for groups, users, articles, etc.
Joomla is focused on basic content management and security is based on purely access control. In Drupal, everything that exists is an object, and that object can be a variety of types, content, media, applications, application programming interfaces (APIs) and more. The security principles with Drupal are designed to integrate with third-party applications in a more flexible, modern and secure way.
The core isn’t the only code that needs to be secure, of course. There are thousands of extensions third-party modules available for both Drupal and Joomla. Plus there’s whatever additional code has gone into creating the site.
Joomla has security features like a database class smart enough to check that when you pass data to it, the data is properly sanitized. But if you hard-code their connections to the database instead, without doing any checking or sanitizing, you’re introducing vulnerabilities. One concern for Joomla users is that third-party components for Joomla don’t go through any formal testing by Joomla.
Both Joomla and Drupal are not perfect, they both got its own weakness, but these two site builder have steals web developers heart. Another thing that required security protection is protecting your online content from content thieves.