Upgrade your WordPress with ver3.0.5 to avoid Security Threats

This security release is required if you have any untrusted user accounts, but it also comes with important security enhancements and hardening. All WordPress users are strongly encouraged to update. Before the final release of WordPress 3.1, this security update came. As WordPress 3.1 is at RC4 stage, we can expect final build in next few weeks.

This 3.0.5 update is also having couple of security enhancements for plugins installed on the system which are not following security API of WordPress.

An update to the popular WordPress blogging platform has just been released. The announcement should appear in the admin interface of the WordPress blog. If it does not check the Updates entry on the left sidebar of the admin menu.

According to the developers, WordPress 3.0.5 is a ” security hardening update for all previous WordPress versions” that fixes two moderate security issues and one information disclosure issue, and adds two security enhancements to the blogging application.

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