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A huge security issue with wordpress and how to tackle it.

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  Sat, Oct 24 2009, 17:25

This post is only meant for people who use wordpress or those who are interested in starting wordpress based website or a blog. Wordpress is an amazing and highly user friendly platform, creating and developing a website is nothing more than creating and formatting a word document. After the stable release of 2.7 series in wordpress the new version of 2.8 came out. Though the admin panel of this version is really good and easy to use than the older versions, there was a very serious security lapse.  Anyone can reset the admin password and start to play around with your site, the bigger your site is, more vulnerable it is. Now few may have the experience of losing their password and recovering from the “Forgot password” option in wordpress. Here the problem is if a hacker is resetting the password, then you cannot recover it that way. How a hacker can do this? Anyone can reset the password by the following url in the browser URL (http://www.domain.com/wp-login.php... http://ajithkumar.cc/technology/wordpr...

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