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WordPress 2.11 Dangerous!
March 3, 2007 in WordPress | 2 Comments
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days (like I did), your files may include a security exploit that was added by a hacker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
Short story long: This morning WordPress received a note to their security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. They took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.
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Tags: Cracker, Hacker, WordPress, WordPress 2.11, WordPress 2.12Feb
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Okay, that’s it.
I’ve had it with Joomla, Moveable Type and Expression Engine… especially Expression Engine.
For the past few weeks I’ve noticed that my rankings in Google have been sliding down and off the front pages for many keywords and topics. So I started a discussion over on Michel Fortin’s fantastic copywriting forum and after 19 posts it was overwhelmingly evident that WordPress has it all over the other blog and content management systems.
But yesterday sent me over the edge.
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Tags: Expression Engine, Google, Joomla, Michel Fortin, Moveable Type, WordPress