WordPress 2.3.3 exploit – upgrade to 2.5 now!

Posted on | April 6, 2008 | 4 Comments

if you’re still running WordPress 2.3.3, now might be a good time to consider an upgrade. a recent exploit seems to turn your blog into a spamlink-farm, which might ultimately lead to a site-wide ban from Google’s index (as happened to Austrian proto-blogger Helge). to check if your blog is affected, look for the existence of the folder “wp-content/1″. more info on the exploit can be found at wordpress.org, as well as an upgrade-guide to 2.5 (highly recommended).

I’ve installed WordPress 2.5 on my blogs last week, and so far everything is running smooth. plus, the new backend-interface is really looking niiice. however, keep in mind that some minor plugins aren’t working on 2.5 yet!

ps: 2.5 finally features automatic update of plugins… however this doesn’t work on both of my installs – everytime I try to update, I’m just prompted for FTP-credentials – any ideas? thx!

pps: is there a tool to import UltimateTagWarrior-taggings into WordPress’ own tagging-system?

 

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