{"id":604,"date":"2009-07-21T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/news\/?p=604"},"modified":"2009-08-18T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:41:07","slug":"wordpress-2-8-2-patches-security-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/wordpress-2-8-2-patches-security-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.8.2 Patches Security Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following less than two weeks after the release WordPress 2.8.1, which fixed a potentially serious security vulnerability, a new version has been <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2009\/07\/wordpress-2-8-2\/\">released<\/a> to patch another potentially serious security vulnerability. In versions before 2.8.2, comment author URLs were not fully sanitized which could lead to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. When viewing a page in the administrative interface that contains a specifically crafted comment author URL the user would be automatically redirected to another web page. That other web page could try to infect the user&#8217;s machine with malware or try to perform some other harmful activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following less than two weeks after the release WordPress 2.8.1, which fixed a potentially serious security vulnerability, a new version has been released to patch another potentially serious security vulnerability. In versions before 2.8.2, comment author URLs were not fully sanitized which could lead to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. When viewing a page in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/wordpress-2-8-2-patches-security-vulnerability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WordPress 2.8.2 Patches Security Vulnerability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}