Wordpress 2.6.3 - Snoopy Patch

Upgrade to wordpress 2.6.3

I was glancing at my wordpress dashboard and noticed that it was prompting me to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6.3. So I will follow what wordpress tells me as it might be a good update.

After reading the Wordpress Development Blog, I learned that this little update is to make a little fix to a vulnerability found on Snoopy (not the dog). Snoopy is the one who fetches the feeds that you can see in your dashboard. As I usually read those feeds a lot when browsing for wordpress news, I believe it is a required or mandatory update.

Files to replace in wordpress 2.3.3

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

This update won’t even take 5 minutes of your time so just do it. :)

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    Posted in Wordpress on Oct 30th, 2008 by Allen Gurrea   

    7 Responses

    1. New-York Lingerie (1 comments.)
      October 31st, 2008 | 8:56 am

      You should promote the auto update tool from the wordpress plugin site. It doesn’t actually update on a schedule but when you login and it says theres an update, you click update and it goes through all the steps. All you have to do is click.

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    2. Ling (6 comments.)
      October 31st, 2008 | 12:18 pm

      By mandatory update, do you mean that we have to update? I haven’t updated Wordpress since I started my blog a year ago…

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    3. Porch Lifts (43 comments.)
      October 31st, 2008 | 10:57 pm

      @Ling: That is actually really bad. I like wordpress, but one of its flaws is that there is a lot of sloppy coding. Pretty much every update, fixes a security hole that could leave your site completely un-protected.

      This last one mostly dealt with rss stuff, but the last one closed a whole that allowed people to reset the admin password. It is imperative that you stay on top of the updates for wordpress.

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    4. silkenhut (100 comments.)
      November 3rd, 2008 | 8:54 am

      @New York Lingerie - Ah yes, I have made a post about that and I use that everytime I upgrade. However, since it only concerns two files, I don’t think it would take that much time. Thanks for the heads-up.

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    5. silkenhut (100 comments.)
      November 3rd, 2008 | 8:55 am

      @Ling - I do agree with Porch Lifts. You should update/upgrade your wordpress installation else you risk your blog getting hacked. :)

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    6. fall decorations (2 comments.)
      November 4th, 2008 | 2:29 pm

      @Ling no, not really it’s up to you if you gonna update or not

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    7. Sleep Disorders Treatment (2 comments.)
      November 24th, 2008 | 1:52 am

      What would be the problem If won’t update with Snoopy patch? Could you please explain it and show installation process too.

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