Title: Technorati warning
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Technorati warning

 *  [Jayvie Canono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gaius_mohiam/)
 * (@gaius_mohiam)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technorati-warning/)
 * Today I received the following warning for one of my client websites:
 * > Dear [redacted],
   > I hate automated messages as much as anybody, however there is a
   >  situation
   > that concerns thousands of bloggers. I’m contacting you regarding information
   > related to your Technorati profile ([redacted]) and the blog you’ve claimed
   > on Technorati [redacted]
   > According to our data, that blog is running a version of WordPress that
   >  may
   > be suffering from a security vulnerability. See [http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/](http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/)
   > The version we have on record is WordPress 2.0.11
 * Does version 2.0.11 have this issue? If not, has Technorati been alerted of this?
   My client is not ready to upgrade to 2.5, and probably won’t be until I can give
   about twenty hours to rewriting a lot of her theme code.

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 *  [digitalvision](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalvision/)
 * (@digitalvision)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technorati-warning/#post-734998)
 * [Everything I am reading so far is that most of the vulnerabilities are for anything below 2.3.3.](http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/04/08/upgrade-or-else)
   Can you get your client that far – for now – for less hours?
 * Technorati is playing it safe – there are some serious spam exploits that are
   going on it seems. I wouldn’t expect Technorati to change it’s policies, as they
   need to protect the safety of their visitors and they can’t analyze every blog
   out there.
 * Sorry, I’m sure it’s not the answer you want 🙁
 *  [Len](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenk/)
 * (@lenk)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technorati-warning/#post-735015)
 * Anything below 2.3.3 is exploitable however 2.0.11 is the latest of the 2.0 branch,
   is stable and is being actively maintained until 2010. More info [here](http://wordpress.org/download/legacy/).
 *  [StrangeAttractor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strangeattractor/)
 * (@strangeattractor)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technorati-warning/#post-735027)
 * I had thought the 2.2.3 version was fairly secure according to my research — 
   can someone correct me if I’m wrong?
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technorati-warning/#post-735029)
 * [http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4721](http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4721)
 * there you go.. Note the “_Affected version: WordPress <= 2.3.1_”
 *  [Rok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rok/)
 * (@rok)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technorati-warning/#post-735051)
 * [Technorati has decided to not index WordPress blog](http://www.ditii.com/2008/04/09/technorati-vulnerable-wordpress-blogs-not-being-indexed/)
   untill you upgrade to WordPress 2.5.
 *  [StrangeAttractor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strangeattractor/)
 * (@strangeattractor)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technorati-warning/#post-735228)
 * **whooami** – thanks for that heads up. I will be checking milworm faithfully.
 * For the particular exploit you listed, it seems that the fix is to convert the
   database character set over to UTF-8.
 * Are there any other sites you recommend like milw0rm for security news about 
   WP?
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technorati-warning/#post-735229)
 * theres all kinds of ’em .. securiteam.com, for instance, What sets milw0rm apart
   isnt the fresh content, so much as once something shows up on there, you know
   the script kiddies have it.
 * It takes no skill to get a shell, grab a perl script of there and run it.

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## Tags

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 * [warning](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/warning/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
 * 6 participants
 * Last reply from: [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technorati-warning/#post-735229)
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