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It's a wonderful piece of software. We've had one of our clients wanting us to "just provide a simple PHP install for wordpress, just hosting" (among some more complex java stuff company wrote for them).

Site hacked within a day from install. Thankfully we have limited outogoing traffic (whitelist on proxy) so only thing exploit managed to replace is their main page with our proxy's 403 error page, but damn, how this piece of software remains so shit till this day is massive achievement in incompetence.

They also manage to fail on every level, like a simple problem of "a service behind a loadbalancer/reverse proxy" is still unsolved because devs refuse to support X-Forwarded-For header in core "because it's not official RFC", and also do not support official RFC for same feature.