WordPress released WordPress 2.8.5
WordPress, one of the best blog platform, has released WordPress 2.8.5, on the way to WordPress 2.9 that still under development. The point from this upgrading version is security hardening changes, as Peter Westwood said on WordPress.Org blog.
Here is the list of headline changes:
- A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
- Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
- Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
- Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.
WordPress also recommend user to use WordPress Exploit Scanner, plugin that scan wordpress blog and it will asked you to cleare out all traces of recent exploits.
But, as far as i know, until now WordPress didn’t send any notification for WordPress.com blogs; “Upgrade” alert only comes up on WordPress.org blog dahsboard.
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