A small patch for your wordpress blog, please upgradeto wordpress 2.8.5.
Posted on October 21st, 2009 in Blogging
Wordpress 2.9 beta testing starts shortly, and today wordpress has released a hardening patch (getting us ready) for the new 2.9 release.
Somethings to notice in the release of Wordpress 2.8.5:
- A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
- Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
- Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
- Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
Also, there’s more, if you think your wordpress blog was infected during the recent exploit attack, there is a plugin that you can install to search the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
More information on the Wordpress blog.
This post has 4 comments
October 22nd, 2009
Saw this update Yesterday and the first thing which I did
was Backup my Db and updated the wordpress. Though wordpress are releasing very quick update..
October 26th, 2009
Yup. Its always best to upgrade the database before upgrading anything in wordpress.
Thanks for the tip harsh!
January 7th, 2010
Thank you so much, there aren’t enough posts on this… or at least i cant find them. I am turning into such a blog nut, I just cant get enough and this is such an important topic… i’ll be sure to write something about your site
January 8th, 2010
Thanks