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Tag: security upgrade

  • WordPress 4.2.4 Patches Six Security Vulnerabilities

    WordPress 4.2.4 Patches Six Security Vulnerabilities

    WordPress 4.2.4 is available and patches six security vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities were discovered by outside parties and members of the WordPress core security team. This release also fixes four bugs: WPDB: When checking the encoding of strings against the database, make sure we’re only relying on the return value of strings that were sent to…

    Jeff Chandler

  • 2.8.4 Is Out, Better Upgrade

    If you haven’t heard the news, WordPress 2.8.4 has been released to fix another security/annoying issue that was discovered the other night. According to the announcement, this is what happens: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset.…

    Jeff Chandler