Hey guys as you know WordPress 2.6.5 was released on November 25th. The security issue was an XSS exploit that though affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. But we recommend everyone to upgrade to the newest version in order to be safe

What’s New What’s Fixed ?

Apart from the fixing the XSS bug, the following minor fixes were made

• The accidentally saving of post meta information to a revision is now prevented.
• Prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types.
• User ID sanitization during bulk delete requests.

How to Upgrade easily to WordPress 2.6.5 ?

Well upgrading worpress is quite easy. You might have already been knowing how to do that. Download the wordpress package, unzip it and upload it on your server.

But you dont need to do all that, ill provice you with the 2 files that you need to replace in order to upgrade your wordpress installtion. Just follow these simple stems to upgrade from WordPress 2.6.3 to WordPress 2.6.5 without needing to download that 1.2 MB file again

Download this zip archive containing the two files to be replaced (namely version.php and feed.php)

Upload them to your server and replace them in the wp-includes folder.

Now you have your upgraded WordPress 2.6.5 ready for use

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