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🛡️ The WordPress Security Report · July 2026

🇳🇱 52.4% of Netherlands's WordPress sites run a known-vulnerable component

Of 7,421 Netherlands WordPress sites where we could read a component version, 3,889 (52.4%) run at least one plugin or theme in a version with a publicly known vulnerability. This measures patch hygiene — not that a site is exploitable.

Analysis of live, content-validated websites · vulnerability data from Wordfence Intelligence · snapshot 2026-07-25 · by Piperic

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52.4%
run a known-vulnerable component
6.5%
run a critical (CVSS 9+) flaw
#32
safest-web rank
of 37 countries (lower = more up-to-date)

Where Netherlands stands in the world

Share of measured WordPress sites running a known-vulnerable component — lower = more up-to-date. Netherlands ranks #32 of 37 countries.

🇻🇳 Vietnam83.2%🇮🇱 Israel75.8%🇧🇷 Brazil72.0%🇬🇷 Greece71.5%🇸🇰 Slovakia70.7%🇨🇱 Chile69.2%🇷🇴 Romania68.6%🇦🇷 Argentina67.5%🇳🇱 Netherlands52.4%

Neighbours shown for context. Full ranking in the data download.

How Netherlands compares to the world

Netherlands's WordPress web measured against the global average — and its exposure to an end-of-life front-end library that stopped receiving security fixes in 2016.

52.4%
of Netherlands's sites vulnerable
58.8%
global average
3.7%
on end-of-life jQuery 1.x

The most common vulnerable components in Netherlands

Share of measured Netherlands WordPress sites running each plugin or theme in a version with a known vulnerability.

Contact Form 79.93%Slider Revolution7.06%WPBakery Page Builder6.75%WooCommerce4.23%Elementor Pro3.4%Astra (theme)2.8%Essential Addons for Elementor2.2%Elementor2.16%Elementor Header & Footer1.93%Smash Balloon Instagram Feed1.77%Gravityforms1.46%LayerSlider1.27%Avada1.16%Flatsome (theme)1.15%Salient1.08%

The most-used plugins — and how often they're outdated

Among Netherlands sites that run each of these popular components, the share on a version with a known vulnerability. Some stay current; page-builders and sliders lag.

Contact Form 733%Elementor10%WooCommerce34%Elementor Pro28%Hello Elementor10%Slider Revolution91%WPBakery Page Builder87%Astra (theme)47%Cookie Notice15%CookieYes1%Google Analytics For Wordpress29%Smash Balloon Instagram Feed58%Gravityforms59%Jetpack43%Essential Addons for Elementor96%

How severe are the exposures?

Of Netherlands sites running a vulnerable component, the worst-case severity (CVSS) present.

Critical (CVSS 9.0–10)12.4%High (7.0–8.9)44.2%Medium (4.0–6.9)43.4%Low (<4)0.1%

Which industries run the most vulnerable components

Share of measured Netherlands WordPress sites with a known-vulnerable component, by industry.

SectorSitesVulnerable
Shopping15861.4%
Automotive12853.1%
Entertainment28348.8%

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For journalists — press kit

“The headline vulnerabilities make the news; the quiet reality is that most of Netherlands's WordPress web runs a component with a long-known, unpatched flaw — usually a premium plugin bundled into a theme that no one ever updates,”
— said Attila Rácz-Akácosi, founder of Piperic.

How to cite: “According to Piperic's WordPress Security Report (2026-07-25), 52.4% of measured Netherlands WordPress sites run a component with a known vulnerability…” — link to this page.

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Methodology

Sample: measured Netherlands WordPress sites (ccTLD-based assignment) where at least one plugin/theme version was readable from the homepage. Plugin/theme versions are cross-referenced against the Wordfence Intelligence vulnerability database (CVE-anchored). This measures update hygiene — running a version for which a vulnerability was disclosed — not exploitability. Homepage-only detection sees front-end components, not back-end plugins. All figures are aggregate; no individual site is identified. Snapshot 2026-07-25 (frozen). Vulnerability data © Wordfence Intelligence, MITRE where applicable.

Press contact: press@piperic.com · Data: Piperic Business Intelligence

Every number on this page is reproducible from the public dataset above.

Country reports

🌍 Worldwide🇩🇪 Germany🇳🇱 Netherlands🇬🇧 United Kingdom🇫🇷 France🇷🇺 Russia🇦🇺 Australia🇧🇷 Brazil🇨🇭 Switzerland🇯🇵 Japan🇵🇱 Poland🇸🇪 Sweden🇨🇦 Canada🇪🇺 EU🇮🇹 Italy🇧🇪 Belgium🇪🇸 Spain🇨🇿 Czechia🇦🇹 Austria🇸🇰 Slovakia🇩🇰 Denmark🇮🇳 India🇨🇴 Colombia🇳🇴 Norway🇬🇷 Greece🇭🇺 Hungary🇫🇮 Finland🇲🇽 Mexico🇪🇪 Estonia🇳🇿 New Zealand🇿🇦 South Africa🇮🇱 Israel🇨🇱 Chile🇻🇳 Vietnam🇮🇪 Ireland🇷🇴 Romania🇦🇷 Argentina