WordPress Security Fix: Protect Blog From Theft!


I just got this information from Perishable Press’ RSS feed. Apparently if your database should for any reason go down, there’s a possibility of visitors taking over your blog.



If your server should crash and a visitor tries to access your site, wordpress unable to access the database assumes that a database hasn’t been installed and therefore calls up from the wp-admin folder, install.php.

By simply entering an email address and specifying a blog title in this install.php page, ANYBODY could take over your blog.

Perishable Press offers 3 fixes to this but I prefer the first which is to DELETE install.php forever!

You can read more about this @ Important Security Fix for WordPress by Jeff Starr.

Claim the full rights to your blogs now before it’s too late!


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  1. Harsh Agrawal says:
    August 28, 2009 at 8:14 PM

    Hey Thanks for Useful information..I was not aware of it..another good point should be Keep your WordPress always Updated…
    .-= Harsh Agrawal´s last blog ..How to Install WordPress Step by Step =-.

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  2. Iroko@Bloggers Blog says:
    February 14, 2011 at 1:08 AM

    Thanks for the head up, this days I am definitely learning about blog security…so many things are happening to blogger…in hacking of blogs and stealing of domain name…read more about this at youngprepro.com

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