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WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release

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Wordpress 2.8.6

Wordpress 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you think that you have untrusted authors, editors registered on your blog pages, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended for you by Wordpress. The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch.

 

The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Alot of thanks has been made to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these to Wordpress community.

However as our advice to everyone, you should always get the latest version of Wordpress and you can always update your blog from your Wordpres admin panel with 2 click, this will help and protect your Wordpress blog pages.

You can always dowload the latets of Wordpress by visiting http://wordpress.org/download/ and get the latest versions which Wordpress 2.8.6 is the latest also you will time to read all the updates from Wordpress.

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