The WordPress development team has released version 3.0.3 of the popular open source blogging and publishing platform, a security update for the 3.0.x branch of WordPress. According to the developers, the update addresses a privilege escalation issue in the remote publishing interface that, under certain circumstances, could have allowed Author and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish or delete posts.. Reportedly, the issue only affects sites that have remote publishing enabled The link for this article located at H Security is no longer available. . The recent update to WordPress version 3.0.3 addresses a critical vulnerability related to privilege escalation that affects users utilizing the remote publishing functionalities.. WordPress Update, Remote Publishing Security, Privilege Escalation Fix. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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