[wp-hackers] 2.3 branch security releases

Jason Webster jason at intraffic.net
Mon Jul 14 23:08:07 GMT 2008


A quick search of the CVE database 
<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress> doesn't show 
any 2.3.3 specific issues. However, password hashing etc. got much 
better in 2.5, amongst many other things, so it's totally your call.

John Blackbourn wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was under the impression that the 2.3 branch would continue to
> receive security fixes so a blog could continue running on 2.3.x (for
> the forseeable future anyway) and not upgrade to 2.5. Maybe it's just
> me being stupid and this isn't the case at all, but I know for sure
> that there are other people who think this too.
>
> I have a blog running 2.3.3. Is this now considered an insecure version?
>
> Regards,
> John.
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