This security release is required if you have any untrusted user accounts, but it also comes with important security enhancements and hardening. All WordPress users are strongly encouraged to update. Before the final release of WordPress 3.1, this security update came. As WordPress 3.1 is at RC4 stage, we can expect final build in next few weeks.
This 3.0.5 update is also having couple of security enhancements for plugins installed on the system which are not following security API of WordPress.
An update to the popular WordPress blogging platform has just been released. The announcement should appear in the admin interface of the WordPress blog. If it does not check the Updates entry on the left sidebar of the admin menu.
According to the developers, WordPress 3.0.5 is a ” security hardening update for all previous WordPress versions” that fixes two moderate security issues and one information disclosure issue, and adds two security enhancements to the blogging application.
The security issues could have allowed “a Contributor- or Author-level user to gain further access to the site”, the information disclosure issue “could have allowed an Author-level user to view contents of posts they should not be able to see”.
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The two security enhancements “improved the security of any plugins which were not properly leveraging our security API” and “offer additional defense in depth against a vulnerability that was fixed in previous release”.
Upgrade to WordPress 3.0.5 from dashboard by using Automatically upgrade or you can use manual upgrade through FTP to upload the latest files on server. Enjoy a secured and safe blogging.
The 3.0.5 update comes as WordPress is ramping up the next version of their open source platform. WordPress 3.1 is now at release candidate 4. One of the really interesting things that RC 4 adds is PHP4 compatibility.
Yes, WordPress with ver3.0.5 is security wise most powerful. Thanks for post.
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