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  • Booking Calendar Pro, Premium, Hotel Edition

    Get the complete solution for adding online booking to your site. Support for multiple bookings in a day and the ability to add multiple resources. The ability to customize your booking form fields and emails. Support Online payments. The full functionality of Booking Calendar Standard and much more... Check all features for each version here.

    Start $119

  • Booking Calendar Standard

    Add a simple booking solution to your site, that allows your visitors to make single or multiple day bookings for a single resource. It's great for simple reservation services, rental service or any other service, where you need to make a booking on a specific date.

    Get it for free.

  • Category and page icons

    Add icons (images) to sidebar of your site or blog into section of categories and pages.

  • Microstock photo plugin

    Millions of Microstock Photos for your Blog Easily add relevant photos to your blog posts without leaving Wordpress. Turn on the affiliate option to start earning money from links on your photos. Simple, automatic and lucrative photos for Wordpress blogs

WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release

As you know over the past couple of months we have been working on the new features for WordPress 2.9. We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and during this process we have identified a number of security hardening changes that we thought we worth back-porting to the 2.8 branch so as to get these improvements out there and making all your sites as secure as possible.

The headline changes in this release are:

  • A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
  • Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
  • Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.
  • Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.

We would recommend that all sites are upgraded to this new version of WordPress so as to ensure that you have the best available protection.

If you think your site may have been hit by one of the recent exploits and you would like to make sure that you have cleared out all traces of the exploit then we would recommend that you take a look at the WordPress Exploit Scanner.  This is a plugin which searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.  You can read more about this plugin here – “WordPress Exploit Scanner“

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One Response to “WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release”
  1. Auto Insurance Guy, November 8th 2009, 00:15

    Ah!!! at last I found what I was looking for. Somtimes it takes so much effort to find even tiny useful piece of information.
    Nice post. Thanks

    Reply

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