Net Data Design, LLC Blog » hardening http://blog.nddllc.com Software and Database Development Blog Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:33:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha WordPress 2.8.5 has been released http://blog.nddllc.com/2009/10/23/wordpress-2-8-5-has-been-released/ http://blog.nddllc.com/2009/10/23/wordpress-2-8-5-has-been-released/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:23:17 +0000 Chris Smith http://blog.nddllc.com/?p=16 This update is a “security hardening release” – intended to protect against potential problems, and one issue already in the wild.

  • 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.

You can get all the details here from WordPress.Org.

 

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