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Advanced web hosting users made aware of WordPress 2.8 security changes

26/10/2009 09:16

WordPress team have made announcement that they are back-porting some security related changes for the 2.8 branch, to increase the security issues, which will be appreciated most likely by the advanced web hosting users. Enhanced security and protected environment will make the increase in the safety of advanced hosting users, along with a protected environment.

They are doing it for aiding the users for making their websites as protected as possible and they can make the decision, during the features development processes for WordPress 2.9. WordPress 2.8 has to show more protected environment for enhancement of the version 2.9.

In the important aspects of changes, these are fixed for the Trackback Denial-of-service attack, which has been seen in recent times. It also makes the removal of areas of the coding, in which the php code in variables was analysed. The importers of Tag data from old plugins have been retired and the file upload function have been whitelisted for all users, inclusive of administrators.

It is recommended that all the websites are upgraded to the new version of WordPress, for making sure that you have the best possible protection. In the last month, the organization showed up that viruses and malware have been making the way around old, unorganized versions of WordPress, which is something that use webhosting packages may want to look for.

Security is the most important issue for any website owner and this is given a full rate assurance by WordPress to give the services, which are actually very secured.

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