More WordPress Shenanigans…

08.17.05 | Site

WordPress - developers totally nuts: It turns out, that the WordPress developers are not only slow in dealing with security holes, but totally irresponsible. It has come to my attention, that after I had disclosed to them, the obvious flaws in their security fix, they have silently replaced the release tarball of WordPress 1.5.2 with a fixed version at an unknown point in time during the last 2 days.

This means everyone who upgraded within the first day is most probably still vulnerable to the exploit. It is hard to guess how many people are affected, because the change of the tarball was performed without any notification of me or their users. - Continue reading “WordPress - developers totally nuts”

And this is why I plan to make the change from using Wordpress. When developers (even open source) behave in this manner, it’s hard to take a product seriously.

I’m pleased to share that my Drupal tests are going very well, and that I’ve already begun working on a new style format which will somewhat resemble the site as it exists now. Onward and upward…