{"id":1486,"date":"2007-06-21T11:05:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/wordpress-flaw\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T20:56:18","slug":"wordpress-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/wordpress-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wincent.com\/a\/about\/wincent\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/06\/wordpress_flaw.php\">Wincent Colaiuta<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/wincent.com\/a\/about\/wincent\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/06\/wordpress_flaw.php\">\n<p>\nThis flaw should never have crept into the code base; it&rsquo;s an elementary SQL injection attack. And once in the code base, it should have been caught by review. But it didn&rsquo;t get caught, and the WordPress team sat on the fix for nearly a month before advising people to upgrade; during just over two of those weeks an exploit was widely disseminated.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wincent Colaiuta: This flaw should never have crept into the code base; it&rsquo;s an elementary SQL injection attack. And once in the code base, it should have been caught by review. But it didn&rsquo;t get caught, and the WordPress team sat on the fix for nearly a month before advising people to upgrade; during just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-07-06T20:56:22Z","apple_news_api_id":"36da39df-f21a-436d-a73e-ac005fbc6544","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-06T20:56:22Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ANto53_IaQ22nPqwAX7xlRA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,2095,740],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-exploit","tag-wordpress"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33051,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/33051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}