{"id":33,"date":"2009-09-26T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2021-05-28T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T20:04:30","slug":"are-you-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Are you current?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of this writing, WordPress version 2.8.4 is the most current release.  It was produced in August 2009 to fix a security hole.  Versions prior to 2.8.4 are subject to a problem where an attacker sends a request for a specially crafted URL to your blog, which bypasses a security check on password resets.  This could allow someone to reset your admin password.  It would <strong>not<\/strong> send the password to the attacker, but it is definitely annoying.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do I tell if I need to update?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Log in to the admin page of your WordPress site.\u00a0 Click the Dashboard button, and you should see a statement which says, &#8220;You are using WordPress x.y.z&#8221;.\u00a0 If x.y.z is anything less than 2.8.4 you need to update ASAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of this writing, WordPress version 2.8.4 is the most current release. It was produced in August 2009 to fix a security hole. Versions prior to 2.8.4 are subject to a problem where an attacker sends a request for a specially crafted URL to your blog, which bypasses a security check on password resets. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wordpressupdate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}