A small patch for your wordpress blog, please upgradeto wordpress 2.8.5.

Wordpress 2.9 beta testing starts shortly, and today wordpress has released a hardening patch (getting us ready) for the new 2.9 release.

Somethings to notice in the release of Wordpress 2.8.5:

• 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.

Also, there’s more, if you think your wordpress blog was infected during the recent exploit attack, there is a plugin that you can install to search 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.

More information on the Wordpress blog.