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Wordpress security hole
Category: meta
Posted on: July 5, 2005 10:44 AM, by Tim Lambert
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Its probably worth pointing out that unlike the upgrade from 1.3 to 1.5 (which took me about three hours), going from 1.5x to 1.5.1.3 really does take about 10 minutes.
Posted by: flute | July 6, 2005 3:19 AM