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And one of the problems with the existing forums is that they get deployed by people into their interest (i.e. someone into flyfishing wants a community, isn't technical but follows the instructions word for word and it works), and those people are not actually skilled enough to update and support the installation... so any security issue that is present, isn't swiftly dealt with.
The issue isn't whether Wordpress or something else contains bugs... all software does. What matters is how quickly the bug can be patched for the vast majority of users.
That and removing a lot of the technical barriers to setting up a community is why I think the hosted model works better. And a full separation of the backend storage and frontend presentation layers means we can still keep security whilst allowing 100% customisability (for those who want to host just the front-end bit).