Find out if your WordPress Blog is Timthumb Script Vulnerable | TechnoEnclave

WordPress is a popular and widely used blog script which is often used as a content management system. Many themes and plugins are available to make your WordPress blog look like a real site. However, some of the plugins are vulnerable to attacks.

Timthumb script is a very popular script employed by WordPress and blog users to resize images on the fly, which can be used for cropping, zooming and resizing web images (jpg, png, gif). Recently, a threat was discovered which allows others to access your blog.

If you are using TimThumb script then you should perform a series of steps to make sure that your blog is free from all threats. You should scan and find out any vulnerable versions of the script using Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner plugin. As soon as you install the plugin you should perform a scan from Tools |Timthumb Scanner.

The Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner plugin will automatically scan your entire wp-content directory for instances of any outdated and insecure version of the timthumb script, and give you the option to automatically upgrade them with a single click.