All WordPress.com Sites Protected Against Zero Day Vulnerability

Akismet is protecting all WordPress.com sites against the Zero Day XSS vulnerability.

April 27, 2015

Krista Stevens

You may have seen news of a new zero-day vulnerability regarding comments in self-hosted versions of WordPress 4.2.

All WordPress.com sites — including WordPress.com VIP sites — are not vulnerable: your WordPress.com sites are protected by the Akismet anti-spam service, which is already blocking those comments.

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  1. pschrauwers Apr 27th at 8:03 pm

    If we are using a enterprise version of Akismet — are we also protected?

    Liked by 10 people

  2. sickr Apr 27th at 8:51 pm

    That’s why I stick with .com. Thanks!

    Liked by 5 people

  3. gogi6666 Apr 27th at 8:55 pm

    Thank you! 🙂

    Liked by 4 people

  4. Deli Lanoux, Ed.D. Apr 27th at 9:37 pm

    Thanks, Krista! It’s good to know we’re safe.

    Liked by 4 people

  5. colonialist Apr 27th at 9:53 pm

    Reassuring – but what was gabbled in the link was Greek to me – and I don’t do Greek.

    Liked by 12 people

  6. Fabiola Garcia Apr 27th at 10:16 pm

    Great to know, thanks

    Liked by 4 people

  7. Darlene Dranda Apr 27th at 10:36 pm

    That’s good news.

    Liked by 3 people

  8. Greater Voice Apr 28th at 8:37 am

    How obliged do we feel. Thanks for everything that WordPress does, and thanks to all those unknown faces that work for us, silently.

    Liked by 10 people

  9. Robin Vansal Apr 28th at 4:24 pm

    Great to know! Thanks to all the people working for us behind the scene! It’s really kind of you!

    Liked by 5 people

  10. lovessiamese Apr 28th at 10:33 pm

    Thanks for the update. Good to know.

    Liked by 6 people

  11. Fotocopy Rawamangun May 3rd at 5:55 pm

    I really liked the theme Nucleare! It is perfect for my blog and what I want. It has set up I had envisioned for my blog.

    thank you

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