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WordPress Wrote:Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.

Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.


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I would recommend anyone running Wordpress 1.2.1, to upgrade asap!
Thanks for warning us :) (Y)
the andyman Wrote:Thanks for warning us :) (Y)
I thought I had posted. Indeed, thanks. I've alerted my server administrator, and he's looking into updating Cpanel's Fantastico section as soon as possible to the new version (although cpanel got the files from wordpress before they were infected;))
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