Comments on: WP security bug

By: marcus' scrappad

marcus' scrappad — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:59:24 +0000

WordPress bug
Just saw that scriptygoddess posted about it, too. I first read about the bug in this post, but didn't think much of it. Until three days later my site was broken. I grepped through the log file to see what had happened, and found the guy who did it. …

By: Mark J

Mark J — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:26:54 +0000

This isn't a severe site breach, so I don't have a problem with notifying everyone. If this were a more serious bug, then I'd use caution. But all it really does it make your site ugly and quasi-functional, and there is no loss of data.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 06:06:28 +0000

If something goes wrong, it can be fixed and usuable again; it requires knowledge of PHPMyAdmin to go into the database to fix the URL. Then everything should work again just fine.

By: Shelagh

Shelagh — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:44:40 +0000

Thanks for the heads up

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