WordPress Vulnerability, Upgade Now

Streamed by Seagyn on the 6th September 2009

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A WordPress attack is underway which is targeting blogs running an older self-hosted versions of the WordPress software. Your WordPress blog is only vulnerable if you are running earlier versions and not the latest release of 2.8.4.

WordPress has officially stated that you must upgrade your blog to the latest version as the worm has no effect on the latest release. Apparently if you are infected you won’t really have much chance of fixing the issue and this will require you to export your posts via the built in exporter and then install a fresh copy of WordPress.

Symptons of the attack are funny additions to your WordPress “pretty” urls (look for “eval” and “base64_decode”) and also look if a new user that has been created, look for a username you do not recognise.

So if you have an older version of WordPress, upgrade now!

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