Big Mouth TV » Web Development http://www.bigmouthtv.com Online Business Broadcaster Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:53:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 What Everybody Ought to Know About WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release http://www.bigmouthtv.com/what-everybody-ought-to-know-about-wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/ http://www.bigmouthtv.com/what-everybody-ought-to-know-about-wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:33:37 +0000 Harry http://www.bigmouthtv.com/?p=1021 What’s occurred on your mind, when hear about the WordPress 2.8.6 release. One crossed my mind immediately is what the security features that they particularly paste or polishing? Because during this time, WordPress known as one of the open source CMS vendors who cares their security system.

The 2 Security feature Fixes From WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release :

    ” 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.”

WordPress 2.8.6 will allow you to exploit logged in users who have posting privileges. This feature will give full control to anyone who can enter the user area. For you that may have untrusted blog authors, upgrading to 2.8.6 is absolutely needed.

The 2 Security Problems on WordPress 2.8.6 that has been reported :

1. Problem on XSS vulnerability in Press discovered and reporting by Benjamin Flesch.
2. Sanitizing uploaded file names issue that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations, this discovered and reporting by Dawid Golunski.

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