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I thought to myself, what is preventing from people to hack WordPress?
I mean, you can easily include the config file in a plugin and get the db settings and steal the admin username and password. And if we allready talking about it, is there a way to 100% protect the db settings?
The passwords for WordPress user accounts are securely hashed with a salt, so even if a malicious plugin did access your database and sent your credentials back, they would have to brute force crack them.
Therefore, if you have a secure password and only install trusted plugins and run your site on a dedicated server where there is no shared access, you should be pretty safe.