Computer Worm Attacks Not Updated Wordpress Blogs

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Computer Worm Attacks Not Updated Wordpress Blogs

A computer worm is currently in the wild that is attacking unpatched Wordpress blogs. Unpatched meaning blogs that have not been updated by their administrators to the latest version of the popular blogging software. The worm exploits a security vulnerability in older versions of Wordpress to create a user account, make some changes to the Wordpress installation and to the permalink structure of the blog. It is therefor possible at first glance to see if a Wordpress blog was hacked by the computer work. All that needs to be done is to look at the urls of the blog. If there is more than there should be the blog has been most likely fallen pray to the worm.
 
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