'Backdoor' plugin, WordPress 3.2 RC2 launches

A series of popular Wordpress plug-ins have been found to contain "backdoor" in the source code, which can help hackers access and hijack the blog / website. All passwords for all accounts from Wordpress.org, BudyPress.org and bbPress.org have to be created.

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Plugins provide functional flexibility for WordPress but are also a threat once they have security holes - (Artwork: Internet)

The Wordpress.org plugin is "stuck" backdoor

Plugins are found by the WordPress development team to contain backdoors including AddThis , WPtouch and W3 Total Cache . Worryingly, these plugins have a large number of uses. AddThis has reached nearly 450,000 downloads, W3 Total Cache has surpassed 500,000 downloads and WPtouch (iPhone theme) has been downloaded more than 2 million times.

The WordPress development team says the owners of these plugins are not involved in inserting backdoor into their products but this is a work of hackers. The team also recommends that all users who have installed these plugins on their blog / website need to update immediately to the latest version immediately , along with re-checking the installed and reviewed components. Schedule access to the web host, administrator login schedule (admin).

All members who are using Wordpress.org must change their password to continue using the service, forum . Note not to use the old password or use the same password for many services .

This is the second time since the beginning of the year so the WordPress user community must be anxious about the risk of password leaks. In April, Wordpress.com also issued a warning to all bloggers using the service to change their password after a few hackers hacked into some of the blog's servers.

It's time to upgrade to WordPress 3.2 RC2

The WordPress 3.2 RC2 version has released the user community after only 2 weeks since the RC1 release. Some fixes for the theme are the new Twenty Eleven as well as some features.

Optimized operating speed in each component, WordPress 3.2 also introduces a completely new Dashboard with a more flexible design interface.

In the upcoming release, the development team plans to add a full-screen blog editor, which helps bloggers focus on editing. This function has been tested on WordPress.com blog service.

WordPress is an open blog platform used for many popular blogs / websites such as Engadget , Gizmodo . Born in 2003, Wordpress.org is a place to exchange and share the WordPress user community. WordPress.com is a blogging service similar to Google's Blogger.com , which allows you to register an account and create a personal blog with a lot of interface options, functional plugin settings . without must have a domain name or web hosting site.

Because the number of WordPress blog users is up to millions, security holes are always a great threat to the community. The latest version of WordPress is WordPress 3.2 RC2 which can be downloaded here (Requires PHP 5.24, MySQL 5.0 and removes Internet Explorer 6.0 from the list of supported web browsers) or download the WordPress Beta Tester plugin for session testing New WordPress version.