[wp-hackers] xml-rpc threat ?

Robert Deaton false.hopes at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 20:31:44 GMT 2005


Just for future information, both of those pages are terribly
inaccurate. WordPress does not suffer from the vulnerability
described, but an XML-RPC vulerability was published for WordPress at
the same time, which led to a huge misunderstanding.

On 11/7/05, Phil Ringnalda <philringnalda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Podz wrote:
> > http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=823
> >
> > I'm assuming it's fixed, but confirmation ahead of any forum posts would
> > be nice.
>
> Buried at the bottom of the page is a link to the Security Focus
> solutions page saying that it's an attack on the vulnerability that WP
> 1.5.1.3 fixed.
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14088/solution
>
> Phil Ringnalda
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