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Secure your WordPress Blog. Upgrade Now!

September 5, 2009 by Emily

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There is a worm that has been making it’s way around since yesterday that is attacking WordPress blogs with older versions. If you haven’t upgraded to the current version, please do so right now. Otherwise there is a very high chance your blog will be compromised and it’s much harder to clean up a hacked blog than to upgrade it and keep it secure in the first place.

I’ve noticed some confusion among users at other sites, so I want to make this clear. If you have the current version of WP, which is 2.8.4, you are safe, your blog is immune from this worm. If you have an older version, especially a much older version, you need to upgrade ASAP. Also, this only applies to self-hosted WP blogs. Blogs on wordpress.com aren’t affected because they are always current.

Matt goes into specifics about this worm and the importance of upgrading over on the dev blog and I encourage you to go read it.