I understand your point of reference, but if a real "hacker" wants to attack WordPress I would find it very hard to believe they would need to worry about finding a specific version to define their attack vector. I have faith in the WordPress developers, and the community at large, to point out any potential risks and fix them immediately as has been seen in the recent 3.0.x releases.<br>
<br>Given the above, you may suggest the Theme author make the display of the version number optional (as your own personal recommendation), but having it display is not an item that would currently stop a theme from being "approved" to be included in the repository.<br>
<br><br>Cais.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Daniel Tara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@onedesigns.com">contact@onedesigns.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Let’s say some bored hacker is googling for “powered by wordpress 3.0.3”. It actually returns results.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Edward Caissie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 01, 2011 10:39 PM<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274</div>
</div></span></p><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">How does a public facing WordPress version create a security issue? It's easily found in the meta tags by default</p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>> wrote:</p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Yeah it does and good eye on that one</span></p>
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<div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">----- Original Message ----- </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228);"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:contact@onedesigns.com" title="contact@onedesigns.com" target="_blank">Daniel Tara</a> </span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" title="theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a> </span></p>
</div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:32 PM</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Re: [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Ok, I’ll take better care at giving explanations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Yes, by default the footer shows “Powered by WordPress 3.1-RC1”. I felt that threatens the site’s security.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Daniel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-color: -moz-use-text-color;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 01, 2011 10:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274</span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">If you could add to the ticket an explanation why the calling of RSS tickets, with automatic-feed-links that'd be great</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">One of the things that we've been trying to emphasis is the further explanation portion, the why and how part where we're teaching not just giving blank solid answers</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">i'm also not sure what you mean by public face the version of wordpress? he has wordpress ver. showing up in the footer?</span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">----- Original Message ----- </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(228, 228, 228);"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:contact@onedesigns.com" title="contact@onedesigns.com" target="_blank">Daniel Tara</a> </span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" title="theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a> </span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:27 PM</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Here’s my review for theme iline - 1.0.3</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2274#comment:2" target="_blank">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2274#comment:2</a></p>
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