WordPress 2.8.2 – Unexpected

Jul 20, 2009 in information

Woke up this morning and one of the first things I found was a notice of an update from WordPress to version 2.8.2. This one is to fix a vulnerability. From the WordPress blog

WordPress 2.8.2 fixes an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized when displayed in the admin. This could be exploited to redirect you away from the admin to another site.

Take the time to update your blogs asap. As always when they update I have put the video on doing it below.

Make sure to back up your data base and any theme updates before you hit the upgrade button.

Mike Paetzold

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10 comments

Joe Brochin on July 20, 2009 at 12:02 pm

Thanks Mike,

Wow, haven’t even finished upgrading 2 blogs still. Man I have to get my crap together

Keep the info coming.

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Luca Di Nicola
Twitter: rsonline
on July 20, 2009 at 5:46 pm

I better get moving too. Still have not upgraded from 2.7.1 – I better get busy. Thanks for the backup video again
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Earl Netwal
Twitter: EarlNetwal
on July 20, 2009 at 6:16 pm

Thanks for the heads up Mike. Didn’t notice it. Too used to being behind the times.
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Andre Arnett on July 20, 2009 at 7:17 pm

Thanks Mike, I am getting ready to take care of that right now. Also thanks for the backup video.
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Lyndon Irvine on July 20, 2009 at 9:15 pm

Thanks for the heads up Mike.

My gosh. i just finished updating my blogs.
You mean i gotta go do this all over again.

Hmmm. Definitely gotta start considering
outsourcing for these little time consuming
tasks
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Joel Osborne
Twitter: JoelOsborne
on July 20, 2009 at 9:34 pm

Important to know… thanks Mike!

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Lonnie Minton on July 20, 2009 at 9:37 pm

Thanks Mike. since this is a vulnerability fix, I guess I need to update. I haven’t backed up my blogs in a while so now would be a good time to do that and then upgrade WrodPress.
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Doug Champigny
Twitter: SuperAffil
on July 21, 2009 at 4:57 pm

No wonder smart bloggers pay you to maintain all this for them Mike – WP is too important a platform to avoid it, yet they have more updates than all the other programs I use put together.

As Lyndon said, all these updates should be outsourced – unless blogging is all one does, there’s no reason to tie up this much time with their constant updates – glad your service does it automatically after each of these!
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CAD Programs on September 9, 2009 at 4:01 pm

Hi, My site went down a while ago now, i just need to know how to upload my backup file back onto the site, is it on the dashboard in wordpress or on cpanel or something? what you think?
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Mike
Twitter: thewpmaven
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September 9th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Depends on what happened. If you have the data base you need to install the normal files then import the data base in through php My Admin wihich you can find in cPanel.

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