Ryan announced today the release of WordPress 2.6.3 . The new wordpress version contains the patch which fixes the vulnerability in the Snoopy Library which is used by your wordpress to fetch the feeds which are shown on your admin dashboard.

Although secunia rated the vulnerability Highly critical, it seems that for wordpress users it doesn’t represent such a high-risk Ryan rating it Low-Vulnerability:

” Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately.“

Better safe than sorry! The only 2 modified files in the wordpress core are wp-includes/class-snoopy.php and wp-includes/version.php.

If you’re a newbie wordpress user download the whole wordpress package and upload the contents to your current wordpress installation overwriting the older files.

If your a more advanced user download only the 2 modified files from the WordPress 2.6.3 Release post and upload them to the wp-includes folder.

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