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All WordPress.com Sites Protected Against Zero Day Vulnerability

April 27, 2015  ·  Updated on March 4, 2025  ·  1 min read
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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's avatar pschrauwers Apr 27th at 8:03 pm

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

    • Krista Stevens's avatar Krista Apr 27th at 8:32 pm

      Yes, you’re protected.

  2. Sickr's avatar sickr Apr 27th at 8:51 pm

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

  3. gogi6666's avatar gogi6666 Apr 27th at 8:55 pm

    Thank you! 🙂

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

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

  5. colonialist's avatar 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.

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

    Great to know, thanks

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

    That’s good news.

  8. Neeraj Bhushan's avatar 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.

  9. Robin Vansal's avatar 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!

  10. lovessiamese's avatar lovessiamese Apr 28th at 10:33 pm

    Thanks for the update. Good to know.

  11. Fotocopy Rawamangun's avatar 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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