Oct
25th

Wordpress releases version 2.6.3

Author: Vikas SN | Files under Blogging, Tech News

Wordpress team has found a vulnerability in the Snoopy library . Snoopy is used by Wordpress to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard.

Although this vulnerability has been tagged as a very low risk vulnerability. You can download the following two files and overwrite them in your 2.6.2 installation folder to upgrade to 2.6.3 :

  1. wp-includes/class-snoopy.php
  2. wp-includes/version.php

The whole 2.6.3 release can be downloaded from here.

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4 responses. Wanna say something?

  1. aritra
    Oct 26, 2008 at 01:17:54
    #1

    thanks for the info . so just adding these 2 files will complete the upgrade ?

  2. Vikas SN
    Oct 26, 2008 at 02:25:17
    #2

    @aritra
    Yup just overwriting these 2 files will do the job.

  3. Raju
    Oct 26, 2008 at 14:23:52
    #3

    yeah, I upgraded my site to 2.6.3 :D
    I use this Automatic upgrade plugin which takes care of all the major/minor upgrades!!

  4. Vikas SN
    Oct 27, 2008 at 06:57:21
    #4

    @Raju
    Cool!!!

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