{"id":828,"date":"2009-09-07T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2016-02-27T10:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T15:17:46","slug":"make-sure-your-wordpress-is-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2009\/09\/07\/make-sure-your-wordpress-is-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Sure Your WordPress Is Up To Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heart WordPress. I was a long-time Movable Type user and advocate. When I started this blog in early 2008, I used it as an opportunity to learn and experiment with WordPress, and I&#8217;ve become as big a WP advocate as there is.<\/p>\n<p>One of things that is very critical when it comes to WordPress is making sure your install is up-to-date. Security holes are quickly patched and old installations make easy targets for hackers and script kiddies worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a pretty large-scale WordPress infestation going around right now. I&#8217;ve had to help a few bloggers I know with getting their installs cleaned out and up-to-date, in one case they had never updated beyond version 2.33 (2.8.4 is the most up-to-date).<\/p>\n<p>If you are running a version earlier then 2.8.4, please update as soon as possible. WordPress has recently added in an auto-update functionality, but I still prefer the thoroughness of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-automatic-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">WordPress Automatic Upgrade<\/a> plugin. If you are running anything earlier than WordPress 2.7, that plugin will make your life much easier and you will be updated in just a few minutes automatically.<\/p>\n<p>However, you may not know if your site has been hacked. If you are seeing URL&#8217;s like this one, you have been:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<code>example.com\/category\/post-title\/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER%5BHTTP_REFERER%5D))%7D%7D|.+)&%\/.<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/old-wordpress-versions-under-attack\">This blog post<\/a> has detailed instructions on how to clean out the hack (including getting rid of admin users the bad code creates).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heart WordPress. I was a long-time Movable Type user and advocate. When I started this blog in early 2008, I used it as an opportunity to learn and experiment with WordPress, and I&#8217;ve become as big a WP advocate as there is. 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