Another Wordpress exploit discovered
Posted by mypapit on 27 Jul 2006 in Wordpress
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Wordpress blog users, please disable the “Anyone can Register Option” in your “Option” tab because an exploit has been discovered in the current release of Wordpress, affecting Wordpress 2.0.3 and below (including 1.5.x).
You are also advised to delete all Guest users or any users that you do not know personally, details about this exploit can be read at Dr Dave blog.
p/s: The wordpress team has been informed about his exploit
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