WordPress add-on has easily-exploited loophole

August 2nd, 2011

Posted in: Security — Admin @ 9:58 pm

Many WordPress blogs at risk from image-based zero-day vulnerability.

Technology blogger Mark Maunder recently wrote about an intrusion to his WordPress site. The culprit was a widespread image-tweaking utility called timthumb. Learn what happened and how to fix it at http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/03/many-wordpress-blogs-at-risk-from-image-based-zero-day-vulnerability/