{"id":4392,"date":"2008-03-28T21:59:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T04:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/03\/28\/wordpress-233\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T04:59:20","slug":"wordpress-233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/wordpress-233\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.3.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis is for all you <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2008\/02\/wordpress-233\/\">bloggers who use WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes <a href=\"http:\/\/trac.wordpress.org\/query?status=closed&#038;milestone=2.3.3\">a few minor bugs<\/a>. If you are interested only in the security fix, download the <a href=\"http:\/\/trac.wordpress.org\/browser\/tags\/2.3.3\/xmlrpc.php?format=raw\">fixed version of xmlrpc.php<\/a> and copy it over your existing xmlrpc.php. Otherwise, you can get the entire release <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The security hole allows spammers to infect your site with their crappy ads. When doing my backup I found 40 directories full of images and spam pages in a directory called &#8220;img&#8221; in my pictures directory and in another place within by wp-content. These freeloaders are a scourge.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, my code&#8217;s up-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2008\/03\/wordpress-25-brecker\/\">WordPress 2.5 is now released<\/a>, and it&#8217;s very pretty, but it seems to be much slower.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for all you bloggers who use WordPress WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/wordpress-233\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WordPress 2.3.3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-18Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}