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Upgrade Your WordPress

There is a security vul in WordPress blogs that could allow an attacker to reset other users’ passwords.

From the WPBlog here:

If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade.  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.

So keep that blog updated, ya’ll!

Dr. Jones

Do not talk about fight club. Oops.

One thought on “Upgrade Your WordPress

  • Thankfully I have been so busy and/or without internet that I’m still at 2.5.1!

    (Backing up now so I can upgrade. Thanks. 🙂 )

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