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WordPress Security Vulnerability — Upgrade is a Must!

October 21st, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

There is a new WordPress security vulnerability that makes it very easy for anyone to launch a dos attack on your WordPress site. See the details here: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263

An upgraded version of WordPress was released today to address this problem; version 2.8.5.

This security vulnerability impacts ALL WordPress versions prior to today’s release, so if you are running WordPress an upgrade is a must.

See the following posts on this site for upgrade information:

Upgrade using auto-upgrade: http://educhalk.org/blog/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-27/

Upgrade using Cpanel: http://educhalk.org/blog/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-to-27-using-cpanel/

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