WordPress 2.8.2

by John Ankarström on July 20, 2009

in Releases

WordPress ButtonIt has not been long since WordPress 2.8 arrived, and only two weeks ago 2.8.1 was released. The people at WordPress are fast!

Now, WordPress 2.8.2 has arrived, fixing a critical bug, an XSS vulnerability. As Ryan Boren at WordPress Blog describes it:

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.

As I said, version 2.8.2 fixes this bug. So, upgrade your blog (can be done automatically since 2.7) , and don’t forget to backup your database!

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Article by John Ankarström

John is a young blogger, who lives in Sweden. He has been using WordPress since the start of 2008. He plays the guitar when he's not playing piano nor blogging.

John has written 25 articles for WordPresser.

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