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Hacked Wordpress site

brett — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:43:37 +0000

So the other day, I get an email from a friend of mine asking me to have a look at her blog because some of the links, which were working a few days ago are now dropping everyone on a 400 bad request page.

Before I even have a chance to open up the site, I get another e-mail saying that she thinks that spammers have hacked her WP site! To make a long story short, in the end her WP install had been compromised and there was actually a hidden admin user in the system!

Have a look at the attachment it shows 4 administrator users, but there are only three users total – something doesn’t jive. I cleaned out the bogus admin user and patched up the install to 2.8.4, and now everything seems OK.

If you are running your photoblog on an older version of Wordpress, patch it right now!

Wordpress security issue

brett — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:26:30 +0000

I came across an interesting post this afternoon about a possible security issue with Wordpress. Since so many of you use WP to run your photoblogs, I figured I would pass along a link. The fix is super simple, and I have implemented it on all my sites without issue…would recommend that you check it out.

Wordpress 2.7 is now available!

brett — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:42:39 +0000

I am sure that most of you have already heard that the new version of Wordpress has been made available today. Now I am not usually one to scramble about when a new version of anything comes along (unless of course it fixes some major security issues, or program flaws), but I have made an exception for WP 2.7, and I think that you should as well – you will not (I guarantee) be disappointed by what you will see!

As always, do a full backup, both DB and files, before upgrading!

Wordpress 2.6.5 available

brett — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:19:52 +0000

I know that this is old-news by now, but I wanted to let everyone know that Wordpress has published a new version 2.6.5 which does contain one security fix. From what I have read the security threat doesn’t seem to be high, but if you’re running your photoblog on wordpress you should think about upgrading, just in case!

If you’re not subscribed to the Wordpress Development RSS feed, I would suggest that you add it to your list of feeds!