This is from the WordPress development blog <\/a>and worth noting if you run WordPress as your blog software:<\/p>\n

Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.<\/p>\n

Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.<\/p>\n

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It was determined that a cracker had gained user-level access to one of the servers that powers wordpress.org, and had used that access to modify the download file. We have locked down that server for further forensics, but at this time it appears that the 2.1.1 download was the only thing touched by the attack. They modified two files in WP to include code that would allow for remote PHP execution.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of thing you pray never happens, but it did and now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dealing with it as best we can. Although not all downloads of 2.1.1 were affected, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re declaring the entire version dangerous and have released a new version 2.1.2<\/a> that includes minor updates and entirely verified files. We are also taking lots of measures to ensure something like this can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen again, not the least of which is minutely external verification of the download package so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll know immediately if something goes wrong for any reason.<\/p>\n

Finally, we reset passwords for a number of users with SVN and other access, so you may need to reset your password on the forums<\/a> before you can login again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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