[Clipart] Site down because of wordpress vulnerability

Nicu Buculei nicu at apsro.com
Tue Jul 5 03:35:02 PDT 2005


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

A solution could be tu update WordPress to the latest version, which is 
patched - http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.5.1.3

-- 
nicu



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