A vulnerability in WordPress 2.1.2
It seems that another vulnerability has been discovered, this time in WordPress 2.1.2. According to Secunia, it can be “be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.” Doesn’t sound very nice.
This just justifies my Dad’s approach to computer and software upgrades – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, at least not until everyone else has discovered all the bugs and breaches and everything has been ironed out. (My Dad is a bit extreme in his approach – he still uses Lotus 1-2-3 as his spreadsheet of choice – the non-Windows version!) Everyone jumped to upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2 when a security breach was discovered, but now it looks like there will have to be another upgrade very soon. It makes me happy that I left my other blog running on good ‘ol stable WordPress 2.0.5.
Oh well. I guess the good thing out of all of this is that I’ll become an expert on upgrading WordPress. Yay.
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