Reply to post: Security-aware folk are unlikely to be affected by this

Don't be a WordPress RCE-hole and patch up this XSS vuln, pronto

adnim
Holmes

Security-aware folk are unlikely to be affected by this

a) the target site having comments enabled - check

b) the site admin being oblivious enough to click a dodgy link, however the attacker presents it to them. - uncheck.

I do a who is on source IP and based on the results block the IP or a subnet.

Anyone that admins a Wordpress site and does click on links within a spam comment shouldn't own a computer let alone admin a Wordpress install.

I updated anyway.

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