The Computer Vet Weblog

I’m a user of WordPress on a couple of my sites, including On The Air. So that’s why this notice caught my attention: WordPress 2.1.1 Dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2. Dangerous? How could a blogging tool be dangerous? It turns out someone hacked into their servers and inserted a security exploit right into the code for Wordpress, the official code that everyone was downloading from the official site. Kind of a nasty situation, one that could happen to anyone, and luckily they noticed it and pulled the code down quickly.

WordPress 2.1.1 was only out for about a week, and the exploit was in it less than that. So probably not a lot of people had gotten around to downloading it. But if you did, chuck it out and download 2.1.2 right away.