Comments on: WordPress vulnerability in the wild

By: WordPress continues delivers cutting edge features | Cyde Weys Musings

WordPress continues delivers cutting edge features | Cyde Weys Musings — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:59:01 +0000

[...] know I’ve been critical of WordPress in the past, but the new release of WordPress 2.6 allows me to pause and give thanks [...]

By: Ripberger

Ripberger — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:03:50 +0000

Wikipedia Review was hacked not so long ago. Apparently the hack was part of a large-scale attack against WordPress sites.

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:15:49 +0000

Thanks Donncha O Caoimh, you were right on. I actually ran into one of the symptoms described in one of your linked pages, WordPress not recognizing that it has successfully been upgraded to 2.5.1. I had a hidden plugin masquerading as an image file, and had to do some playing around in MySQL to both find it and get rid of it. Unfortunately, I think that some of these fixes may be beyond the average WordPress user.

By: T2A`

T2A` — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:10:25 +0000

Depends on what you define as better. If having support for easy theming and plugins makes WP good then whatever. But I’m sure there are plenty of other blog softwarezzz out there that can do the basics just as well and with a lot less resources.

By: Donncha O Caoimh

Donncha O Caoimh — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:05:28 +0000

Unfortunately your blog was probably hacked before you upgraded. More here: http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/06/08/did-your-wordpress-site-get-hacked/

By: William

William — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:37:53 +0000

How many of us are there?
I mean, I don’t leave the site open all the time, but it’s probably open in one of my Fx windows for the better part of 75% of the time my computer’s online.

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:14:23 +0000

Yeah, and if only there was something better.

By: T2A`

T2A` — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:03:16 +0000

I thought WP was a big insecure, resource-hog joke to the community at large anyway. D: