Apr
25
I was startled a few days ago to see this blog show up in Google as being potentially harmful (e.g., “this site may harm your computer”). As it turns out, we’d been the victims of an exploit in WordPress (my fault for not having upgraded to WP 2.5 sooner).
As a result, we backed up the posts, etc., in XML form and then completely deleted the WordPress installation. After that, we did a clean install of WordPress 2.5, added the 2.51 security upgrades, and restored the posts, etc.
There have been a few problems with the restorations (particularly with linked images, the sidebars and the blogroll); bear with us. ..bruce w..
UPDATE: Oh, and I changed the WordPress theme.
UPDATED UPDATE: By popular demand, I changed the WordPress theme back. 
