Tweets From Oliver Sild  ## Metadata - Author: [[@OliverSild on Twitter]] - Full Title: Tweets From Oliver Sild - Category: #tweets - URL: https://twitter.com/OliverSild ## Document Notes ## Highlights - 90%+ of all security vulnerabilities found in WordPress plugins/themes come from those that are distributed via .org - this post is flawed and should actually be deleted, as there's no statistical evidence that plugins/themes distributed via .org have less security vulnerabilities than those distributed directly or via third-party (nor does it matter at all as long as it's not a malicious source). ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/OliverSild/status/1856256292882469347)) - In December, [patchstackapp](https://twitter.com/patchstackapp) got rejected as a sponsor from WordCamp Europe. We've sponsored both #WCEU24 and #WCUS24 and never had an issue. We at first didn't even get an explanation to why this decision was made, but today we finally received the official statement that we don't contribute enough, and once "significant contribution have been established" they are happy to re-evaluate our eligibility to sponsor WordPress events (so it's not just about WCEU). Quick 🧵 about [patchstackapp](https://twitter.com/patchstackapp) contributions to the WordPress project.  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/OliverSild/status/1876916364994019526)) - @photomatt @heyamberhinds @GoDaddy @jetpack Btw, xmlrpc in WordPress is so widely abused (i.e to mass bruteforce sites and get IP addresses of servers to bypass firewalls) that Google even suggests these as the most searched terms. https://t.co/1d5gkmanDa  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/OliverSild/status/1878912972422287642))