A new version of WordPress has been released today and I’m currently in the process of updating all of my WordPress blogs with the new version. That’s always a lot of work because I tend to prefer a manual update and not the automatic option that was implemented into WordPress a while ago. Over 60 [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

The WordPress developers have released version 2.6 of their blogging plattform almost one month ahead of schedule and while some users might be excited to update their blogs and test the new features I’m always a bit taken back by those updates because it means that I have to spend a few hours updating my [...]

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A new version of WordPress was released today that includes over 70 fixes including several important security fixes. The security fixes affect the files wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php which can be downloaded separately if the full WordPress update is not desired yet. Webmasters who ran into problems with the new way of uploading media files [...]

Categories: Software, The Web

A new version of Wordpress has been released just a few hours ago by the Wordpress team. The update is considered critical and fixes a security vulnerability and some minor bugs. The security flaw was found in the implementation of the XML-RPC which would allow any registered user to edit comments of other users using a specially crafted request.

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A new version of the blogging plattform Wordpress has been released today. It is an advised update for every webmaster especially for those with register_globals enabled. A security vulnerability was found that can be exploited if that setting is enabled.

Categories: Software, The Web, Tools

The new version 2.3 of the blog script Wordpress has been released about 12 hours ago and lots of webmasters are starting to prepare their blogs to upgrade their version to the recent one. There is however one difficulty with this new release which will affect a lot of webmasters who try to upgrade their blog.

Categories: ghacks, The Web

The Wordpress development team is releasing new versions of their popular blogging script faster and faster. It seems that I’m doing nothing else than to update my blog with the latest version of Wordpress. While not all updates are required some are important to apply as soon as they are released to close security vulnerabilities that could lead to a compromised blog if a hacker detects that your blog is not running the latest version.

Categories: Security, The Web

Site owners should always be aware of the possibility that their blog gets compromised. This can be because of an old version of Wordpress that is installed or because of vulnerabilities in plugins or themes. It is relatively time consuming to check for updates and stay up to date to make it unlikely that someone would be able to hack your blog.

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The Wordpress development team released yet another update of the Wordpress blog script raising the version number to 2.2.1 in the process. This update contains several bug fixes that might have plagued some Wordpress blog owners while others – including myself – did not experience any of the bugs.

The more important part of this update is that it also fixes several security holes making it a required update for every webmaster. The vulnerabilities that have been fixed, they are:

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