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.
Wordpress 2.3.2 has been released
The popular blog platform Wordpress has been updated to version 2.3.2 today. This release is a security release that fixes a bug that allowed users to view drafted posts which is horrible for websites that make a living from blogging.
Wordpress Plugins that I use
Everton said that I should post a list of plugins that I would use at Ghacks from time to time and this is what I decided to do right now. He actually told me so in an email asking what comment plugin I was using that allowed users to edit their comments for 15 minutes after making the comment.
Wordpress Incorrect Password
Cheryl emailed me this morning telling me that her password would not be accepted by Wordpress after registering a new account although she was sure that she did type it correctly. The message that would appear was always “Incorrect Password”. My first step of solving this problem was to change the password to “test” and try the login procedure again.
Wordpress 2.31 is available
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.
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.3
I finally made the switch to Wordpress 2.3 after pondering for a little while if I should upgrade this early or wait until I was sure that everything would be still working after the switch. The major problem that I saw was the new tagging system that was build into Wordpress 2.3 which was incompatible with the tagging system of the prior versions and especially with the plugin that I have been using for over a year: Simple Tagging.
Don’t upgrade to Wordpress 2.3 yet
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.
