WordPress 2.6.3 released after vulnerability in the Snoopy library was discovered

October 23, 2008 by CMS News · Leave a Comment
Filed under: New Release, Security, Wordpress 

Snoopy is a PHP class that simulates a web browser. It automates the task of retrieving web page content and posting forms.

A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately. 2.6.3 is available for download right now. If you don’t want to download the whole release to get the security fix, you can download the following two files and copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.

File affetec:ted

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

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