Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin Security Issue

09 Oct, 2007

Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin Security Issue

Posted by: User Image Stephan Miller In: Blogging| Feeds| Wordpress

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Burning Questions • The FeedSmith Plugin: newly fortified as part of this delicious breakfast

And you should probably get it pretty soon, since it’s a security release.

Some WordPress plugins that permit the entry of user-entered values, such as older versions of FeedSmith, can be vulnerable to what is called a "cross-site request forgery." Without getting overly technical, this permits someone to change WordPress plugin settings on your system without you noticing during the time you are signed into your WordPress control panel. And no one wants that.

3 Responses to "Feedburner Feedsmith Plugin Security Issue"

1 | Internet Marketing Tips

November 15th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

Hmmm …… That does not sound good. I better check that out because I use the Feedsmith Plugin on my blog.

Thanks for the heads up.

Mike

2 | Internet marketing strategies

September 22nd, 2008 at 2:25 am

Stephan,

Thanks for the tip on this I have this on one of my blogs , I just had two blogs hacked over the weekend it’s so frustrating that these guys have nothing better to do.

Colm

3 | Stephan Miller

September 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 am

Yeah, I had one of my blogs taken down by a hacker in the past. Backups. Do backups of the database and plugins folder and you can make it a one hour setback.

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