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WordPress vulnrability and the easy fix

Tim Thumb Scanner

TimThumb Scanner admin screen

The popular blogging platform WordPress has been fairly secure for quite some time now, but a very serious vulnerability has been found that allows a hacker to gain root access to your hosting account and alter any file at will. The affected file is called timthumb.php and is in itself a fairly harmless file – it allows image thumbnail generation from a chosen list of remote websites.

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