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WordPress 2.9.2

{ Posted on Feb 16 2010 by Ryan Boren }
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Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to ...Read More »

WordPress 2.9.1

{ Posted on Jan 05 2010 by Ryan Boren }
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After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we’re releasing WordPress  2.9.1.  This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks ...Read More »

WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1

{ Posted on Dec 30 2009 by Ryan Boren }
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Thanks to everyone who tested 2.9.1 Beta 1.  We’re following that up with Release Candidate 1.  RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of fixed tickets up to 23.  If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools->Upgrade ...Read More »

WordPress 2.9.1 Beta 1

{ Posted on Dec 24 2009 by Ryan Boren }
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Unfortunately, the recent 2.9 release triggered a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension.  With these versions of curl, scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly.  To fix this problem as well as a handful of other, lesser ...Read More »

WordPress 2.9, oh so fine

{ Posted on Dec 19 2009 by Matt }
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I want to make you mine, all the time… oh wait. Hello. I’m here on behalf of the entire WordPress development team and community to announce the immediate availability of WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” named in honor of magical jazz ...Read More »

WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release

{ Posted on Nov 13 2009 by Ryan Boren }
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2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.  If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended. The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This ...Read More »

WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release

{ Posted on Oct 21 2009 by Peter Westwood }
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As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and during this process we have ...Read More »

WordPress 2.8.4: Security Release

{ Posted on Aug 12 2009 by Matt }
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Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in ...Read More »

WordPress 2.8.3 Security Release

{ Posted on Aug 03 2009 by Ryan Boren }
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Unfortunately, I missed some places when fixing the privilege escalation issues for 2.8.1.  Luckily, the entire WordPress community has our backs.  Several folks in the community dug deeper and discovered areas that were overlooked.  With their help, the remaining issues ...Read More »

WordPress 2.8.2

{ Posted on Jul 20 2009 by Ryan Boren }
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WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site.  Download 2.8.2 or automatically upgrade from the Tools->Upgrade ...Read More »
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