WordPress 2.6.2
September 8, 2008 by Emily
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WordPress 2.6.2 has been released. It is a recommended upgrade due to an issue regarding open registration:
With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password. The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit. However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password. Stefan Esser will release details of the complete attack shortly. The attack is difficult to accomplish, but its mere possibility means we recommend upgrading to 2.6.2.
Download it now or check out the full list of changed files.
The WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin is great for these kinds of releases. I’ve just upgraded this blog and it look less than a minute (I counted).
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Thai SEO Says:
I am happy with current 2.6.1 version but WordPress 2.6.2 contains a handful of bug fixes. I’ve just upgraded my blog to this new.
September 9, 2008 at 12:08 am |