WordPress Secure - 1.5 or higher

on: Nov/8/05 and its been viewed 1,605 times

We have seen this on quite a few of client blogs, those of them who have not upgraded to WordPress 1.5 or higher. From the WordPress Dev. Blog: WordPress is secure:

There is news of a worm which uses a vulnerability in the PHPXMLRPC libraries to spread a computer virus. Some articles are pointing to out-of-date information claiming that WordPress 1.5 is vulnerable. That is incorrect. WordPress 1.5 or higher is safe. Since the release of version 1.5, WordPress has used a completely different XML-RPC library, called IXR.

So, everyone running 1.5 or higher can breathe a collective sigh of relief.

Those of you running 1.2.x or lower? /insert theme from Jaws here

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Posted on: November 8, 2005 |

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Leanne
6:50 pm on November 9th, 2005
How about if I insert the voice of Bruce from Nemo saying…

“Well. Helllooooooo.”

(p.s. they still had the cereal!! YAHOO!)
Jeanette
11:30 pm on November 9th, 2005
Can I pay you to upgrade me?

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