WordPress 2.5 Vulnerability Requires WordPress 2.5.1 Upgrade

Posted by Snap! on April 27th, 2008

As you may have noticed, we are missing a few blog posts (nothing significant) and some comments as a result of a recent database issue which is being investigated. Just so you are warned, multi-author WordPress install such as our own site should not be running version 2.5 for the reason we all have come to know as CVE 2008 1930. Upgrading to version 2.5.1 now will save you a lot of hassle, trust me us this.

We believe a recent attack on our site due to that WordPress vulnerability was responsible for the issues we encountered lately. We assure you that we have taken all the steps necessary to rectify it. Although the BBPress powered WP News Forum was linked, we were able to restore all the fields and posts without any loss of data.

Here are some symptoms and diagnosis for the issue:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172004
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168964

We will post a detailed step by step correction process once we confirm the issue was indeed related. Although having a backup of your database from pre-2.5 might help, we feel it can be accomplished without any backup.

Sunny has a post detailing some WordPress 2.5 troubleshooting tips!

Tagged: Tutorials, Web Tools, WordPress, WordPress 2.5, wpSnap News, wpsnap

April 27th, 2008 // Share