XSS "Service Pack" for WordPress

2 Aug 2007

A German web security searcher has found seven XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerabilities in WordPress and has launched a patch for them... in the form of an XSS blog worm!

[From Blogsecurity and Planet-Websecurity]

Posted by François Nonnenmacher on Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 11:02 AM

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