[Clipart] Site down because of wordpress vulnerability

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 22:49 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> I just got back from US 4th of July festivities to find this nicety.
> 
> (17:21:57) daniels: i've just disabled the clipart.fd.o site because it
> runs wordpress, which has an xmlrpc vulnerability in it
> (17:22:31) daniels: see
> http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00088-07022005
> 
> UGH! Ok, so I'm chatting with Daniels about this on the channel. I don't
> quite understand why he didn't just upgrade the xmlrpc code (which this
> url says to do)...if we can't come to an agreement then I will disable
> the use of wordpress on the site until the problem can be solved.

Ok, I've removed wordpress until turnip and I can sort out the security
issue. The site is live once more.

Jon


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