Jul
20

WordPress 2.8.2 – XSS vulnerability fixed

WordPress 2.8.2 has been released, a quick update which fixes an XSS vulnerability: comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin backend, which could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin dashboard to another site.

Download 2.8.2 from here.

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One Response to “WordPress 2.8.2 – XSS vulnerability fixed”

  1. Karthick says:
    July 20, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Thanks, I just updated to wordpress 2.8.2 and it went very smooth.
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