Archive for July, 2007

wp-scanner review

Geof from gfmorris.wordpress.com gave wp-scanner such an awesome review that I just had to mention it, because he sheds light on exactly what wp-scanner is all about; I promise we didn’t pay him.
These are his words:

I’ve found BlogSecurity’s WordPress Scanner to be invaluable for me; I’ve recently brought a bunch of installs up to current, [...]


Blog Under Siege

WordPress wordTube <= 1.43 is listed on BlogSecurity’s dangerous WordPress software list "BlogWatch". This wp-plugin is vulnerable to a File Include Vulnerability, this means an attacker can execute commands on a vulnerable WordPress server by appending the URL to a malicious file on a remote server under the attacker’s control.

An attacker attempted to exploit [...]


Request for Comments

We have seen colossal success since the opening of BlogSecurity and we have had some wonderful feedback and contributions. It is excellent to see bloggers and fanatics so interested in Security. Germany have been especially interested in the wp-scanner as well as many others.
A number of you have sent in some really positive feedback regarding [...]