Older versions of WordPress under attack
To quote Lorelle: Update your WordPress blog before you continue reading this post. That’s how critical this issue is.
“Otto42 of OttoDestruct, a key WordPress developer and supporter, reports that there is an “attack” on older versions of WordPress right now. The number of sites hit by this is growing every hour. Protect your WordPress blog now: UPDATE NOW!!!”
I sort of have a habit of looking up subscribers to my blog. Thankfully there are not that many of them, so it’s pretty easy. When there’s a new one, I just google it. Two new ones were “OBSCURED EMAIL ADDRESS” and “OBSCURED EMAIL ADDRESS.” Googling these resulted in a slew of warnings on a hack exploit that exists in WordPress installs older than 2.8.4. which can allow nasty things like permalinks being changed to direct people elsewhere, as ArabCrunch points out.
The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
