{"id":719,"date":"2006-07-28T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/"},"modified":"2006-07-28T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T12:02:21","slug":"for-wordpress-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/","title":{"rendered":"For WordPress users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Dave of Spam Karma fame <a href=\"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/26\/critical-announcement-to-all-wordpress-users\/\">warns of a potential security risk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are running WordPress as your blogging platform and if you have been trusting enough to leave User registration enabled for guests, DISABLE IT IMMEDIATELY (in wp-admin >> options: make sure \u201cAnyone can register\u201d is not checked).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, delete or disable ANY guest account already created by people you are not sure about.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving it open and letting people sign-up for guest accounts on your WordPress blog could lead to incredibly nasty stuff happening if anybody so desired. And trust me I am not exaggerating this. So don\u2019t wait a second to disable this option and please relay the message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He has taken some flak for this (as it&#8217;s not, AFAIK, backed up by the official WordPress folk) and I&#8217;m not making a recommendation one way or the other (I already had that option off), but any readers who do allow users to register on their WordPress blog should have a read and make up their own minds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> A new version of WordPress <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2006\/07\/wordpress-204\/\">has been released<\/a> which apparently resolves this security issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Dave of Spam Karma fame warns of a potential security risk: If you are running WordPress as your blogging platform and if you have been trusting enough to leave User registration enabled for guests, DISABLE IT IMMEDIATELY (in wp-admin >> options: make sure \u201cAnyone can register\u201d is not checked). Additionally, delete or disable ANY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[246,79],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-security","tag-wordpress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>For Wordpress users - No geek is an island<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"For Wordpress users - No geek is an island\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Dave of Spam Karma fame warns of a potential security risk: If you are running WordPress as your blogging platform and if you have been trusting enough to leave User registration enabled for guests, DISABLE IT IMMEDIATELY (in wp-admin &gt;&gt; options: make sure \u201cAnyone can register\u201d is not checked). Additionally, delete or disable ANY [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"No geek is an island\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-07-28T12:02:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Will\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Will\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Will\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300\"},\"headline\":\"For WordPress users\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-07-28T12:02:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300\"},\"keywords\":[\"security\",\"wordpress\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Blogging\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/\",\"name\":\"For Wordpress users - No geek is an island\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2006-07-28T12:02:21+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"For WordPress users\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"No geek is an island\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300\",\"name\":\"Will\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/edd7c0105cc6a39125db7653749feae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/edd7c0105cc6a39125db7653749feae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Will\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"For Wordpress users - No geek is an island","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"For Wordpress users - No geek is an island","og_description":"Dr Dave of Spam Karma fame warns of a potential security risk: If you are running WordPress as your blogging platform and if you have been trusting enough to leave User registration enabled for guests, DISABLE IT IMMEDIATELY (in wp-admin >> options: make sure \u201cAnyone can register\u201d is not checked). Additionally, delete or disable ANY [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/","og_site_name":"No geek is an island","article_published_time":"2006-07-28T12:02:21+00:00","author":"Will","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Will","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/"},"author":{"name":"Will","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300"},"headline":"For WordPress users","datePublished":"2006-07-28T12:02:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/"},"wordCount":189,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300"},"keywords":["security","wordpress"],"articleSection":["Blogging"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/","url":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/","name":"For Wordpress users - No geek is an island","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2006-07-28T12:02:21+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/for-wordpress-users\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"For WordPress users"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/","name":"No geek is an island","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300","name":"Will","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/edd7c0105cc6a39125db7653749feae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/edd7c0105cc6a39125db7653749feae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Will"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}