In case you didn’t notice, WordPress 2.8.4 is out. This security release is supposed to fix a vulnerability that was made public yesterday. It allowed an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset using a specially crafted URL.

As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, but it is very annoying.

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