Posted on 17 February, 2010 By
Kim Woodbridge
16 Comments
WordPress 2.9.2 Released: Security Release for Trash
You may have noticed the WordPress update in your WordPress admin for version 2.9.2.
This is a security release but isn’t one to worry about unless you have multiple authors on your blog and particularly if anyone is allowed to register as an author.
And it can be an issue if you leave “sensitive” posts in the trash, which is a new feature of the WordPress 2.9 series.
Basically any logged in user can view posts left in the trash. Even posts that they didn’t write.
And if this will be an issue for you, then you definitely want to install the patch as soon as you can.
I am the only user on this site so I’m the only one who can view the trash or any deleted posts. I will install the update but I don’t see it as an issue on my own site.
Enjoy
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February 17, 2010 at 3:14 am
Thanks for the heads up. I updated anyway even though I don’t have multiple authors. :) I need to practice updating WordPress anyway (I’ve always had problems with it)/
.-= Carla´s last blog ..Naturity Organic Babyhood Products – As good as it gets =-.
February 18, 2010 at 7:36 am
Hi Carla – I hope this one went smoothly.
February 17, 2010 at 7:08 am
Thanks for the Update…Just updated my blog with latest 2.9.2 after taking a clean backup :)
February 18, 2010 at 7:36 am
Hi – Great! Always make a backup first :-)
February 17, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for explaining the update. I always keep my blogs on the latest versión but it’s great to know what each release deals with.
February 18, 2010 at 7:37 am
Hi – Sometimes the updates are for a number of issues and I don’t
always understand what they are all for – this one was one issue and wasn’t hard to understand.
February 17, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Thanks for the post Kim. I was wondering why they needed to release an update so soon.
February 18, 2010 at 7:37 am
Hi Manshu – Thanks! I’m glad it helped.
February 18, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Thanks for the info! I was wondering if this was an important upgrade or not.
.-= vered – blogger for hire´s last blog ..Spring =-.
February 18, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Hi Vered – You should be fine holding off on this one.
February 19, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Am I the only one thinking this is a wasted update?
One blogger actually wrote, this is awesome if you might have untrustworthy people logging in…
Umm, huh? Why on earth would you? Whatever.
.-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..WANTED – Keyword Research Expert(s) =-.
February 20, 2010 at 8:09 am
Hi Dennis – I think some sites use a number of writers that only have
access to their own posts. They aren’t really untrustworthy but aren’t really known either. It might be an issue to have them see posts in the trash. But, I think for most of us it’s a non-issue.
February 20, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Yea well, 10 to 1 says some dude with a lot of porn subscriptions found this flaw. LOL!
.-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..WANTED – Keyword Research Expert(s) =-.
February 21, 2010 at 12:11 pm
lol
February 20, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I recently Started blogging and when I install WordPress my hosting installed 2.9.1 instead of 2.9.2.
And I had to manually upgrade the wordpress to the latest version. though it was not tough though initially I thought of it as quite scary.
February 21, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Upgrading can be scary at first – over time you’ll get used to it :-)