Hello Jerry, On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 15:34 -0800, Jerry Franz wrote: > And in an exact example of this, today I needed to update some WordPress > (WP) installations. Only, for "some reason" the FTP based autoupdater > didn't work today. Do you feel comfortable letting a web application update itself using FTP or even SSH credentials? http://wordpress.org/support/topic/filesystem-credentials-very-bad-practice-and-totally-unnecessary https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659294 The patch shown in http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16625 prompted me to try a $ grep -r "\=\ \%s\"" * in the web root of a WordPress installation. The matches are a bunch of possible SQL injections. Haven't checked the actual code paths, but note how all these strings are unescaped and potentially allow the addition of extra statements using ';'. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research