[wp-hackers] XML-RPC Exploit?

Ryan Boren ryan at boren.nu
Tue Jul 5 01:15:44 GMT 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 02:06 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/04/2153224&tid=95&tid=172&tid=169
> 
> Can anybody please comment on the relevance of WordPress? Bearing in mind that
> the  flaw may have been address already, it is still mentioned among
> applications that are susceptible to an XML-RPC exploit.

Not relevant to WP.  We don't use the php libraries.  Ours is a
different but similar XMLRPC exploit.  There was ours, the php one, and
the PEAR one all at the same time.  Ours was unique to us whereas the
php and PEAR ones affected lots of projects.

Ryan



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