Tag: SECURITYUPDATE

WordPress.org, the insanely popular self-hosted blogging platform, has just received an update that bumps it to version 3.1.1. According to the official blog post on the matter -- and made obvious by the minor revision number -- this isn't a release centered on exciting new features, but that really shouldn't deter any WordPress.org user from updating. WordPress 3.1.1 contains many security ...

The WordPress team has released version 2.5.1 of the blogging software. The new version, which comes nearly a month after the initial release fixes a slew of performance and interface bugs, but also includes a very important security update. It is highly reccommended that all WordPress 2.5 users update their installations as soon as possible, especially if you allow open-registration (for user ...

WordPress users might have noticed an upgrade notification in their Dashboard's today. This version, dubbed WordPress 2.3.3, has been released as an urgent security update. The problem? Well for blogs with registration enabled, a hole in the XML-RPC implementation was found that could allow a user to edit the posts of other users on that blog. The WordPress team has two update solutions. If you ...