When you’re done with your panic attack, take a deep breath and UPGRADE!!

Apparently, a few days ago the integrity of the WP 2.1.1 download was compromised by a cracker. So if you’ve upgraded to WP 2.1.1 in the last few days, you’re WP installation could potentially be vulnerable. Matt explains over at the WordPress Blog…

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.

[emphasis mine.]

There you go… advice straight from the horse’s mouth! And I daresay you should must heed this advice. You wouldn’t live in a house with a door latch broken, would you?!

And even if you aren’t running WP 2.1.1, I would recommend upgrading to WP 2.1.2 as it’s always a good thing to run the latest and greatest version of WordPress.

Oh by the way, I do apologize if the subject line of this post really made you panic. But hey… it’s for your own good now, isn’t it!? :-)