Jason Slater Weblog

I do try and avoid “me too” posts wherever possible but I do feel that this particular issue is important to Wordpress users (which I have been talking a lot about recently) and as such it needs to get to the user base as quickly as possible. A recent article in Technorati has highlighted that Vulnerable WordPress Blogs Not Being Indexed by Technorati and that users should upgrade to a later version - and preferably version 2.5. The particular vulnerability was described in the Wordpress.org Blog article “WordPress 2.3.3” and affects sites that have registration enabled.

The article goes on to say “Even if you haven’t been afflicted by a compromise, by the time you are aware that you have been a number of negative consequences may have already occurred (for instance, flagged spam by Technorati, Google or Yahoo!) — this has been reported by many WordPress users.”

Weblog tools collection are also running an article “Vulnerable WordPress Blogs Not Being Indexed” which goes on to say “Technorati is just the beginning. If your blog has spammy links, has covert hidden pages or links, is used for nefarious purposes, even without your knowledge, you are being penalized by the search engines.“.

If you have put off upgrading Wordpress then now is probably a good time to take the plunge. Wordpress is a platform for managing content on the Internet - you can learn more about it at their site: http://wordpress.org/

The Wordpress download site is at: http://wordpress.org/download/

Wiki have an introduction to Technorati at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati: Technorati describe themself as “…the recognized authority on what’s happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) …“