Wordpress vulnerabilities result in mass blog cracks

Wordpress is arguably the most popular blogging platform. Hence, it’s a give that it has become a popular target for blackhat hackers.

The intentions are usually search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites the bad guys control, as well as traffic-redirection and more.

And recently there were many automated attacks which exploited recently discovered security vulnerabilities in Wordpress.

Most damning, while usually Wordpress was able to keep up, in the past few days “new exploits have appeared that nobody seems to have answers for.”

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Written by pinolobu on June 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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