WordPress 3.8.2 Delivers Security Fixes

Posted by red5 on Apr 10, 2014 1:23 AM EDT
eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner
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Perhaps the biggest security-hardening impact, however, is likely to come from a new mechanism to help reduce the impact of pingback attacks from WordPress installations. A pingback attack takes advantage of the XML-RPC (remote procedure call) pingback functionality in WordPress to launch DDoS attacks. XML-RPC is legitimately used within WordPress to allow content owners to track where their content is getting linked.

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