[wp-hackers] xmlrpc issue or no?

[Lloyd Budd]

On Feb 2, 2008 1:16 PM, Jared Bangs <jared at pacific22.com> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2008 4:55 AM, chays <whoooo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Someone might want to address the post by duskglow, that begins with "Ah,
> > heck. I think this bug is being actively exploited, .."
> >
> > http://wordpress.org/support/topic/134928/page/2#post-686503
> >
>
> I think "whooami" did a decent job in responding so far.
>
> It seems to me that if there's anywhere that "we" (WP dev/hacker community)
> dropped the ball, it's the period of time between 12/12/2007 (when trac
> ticket #5313 was closed) and 2/2/2008 (when it was reopened after an exploit
> had been published).

Jared, instead of speaking generally, could you share what evidence
was overlooked?

Thank you,
Lloyd