Pre-Story: during one of the brainstorm meetings inside Free Traffic System team one of its members mentioned a problem about blog security that we used to experience about a year ago with some of our own blogs. And this is when it stunned us – “what if our bloggers…” – we rushed to check how many blog owners who submitted their blogs to the system know about this security hole and the test results were shocking

Only 1 Out of 10 Blog Owners…

… from Free Traffic System was protected against the mentioned security hole. The rest 9 were naturally naked And we decided it makes no point to do further checks; we need to explain to our users how to fix this security problem.

IMPORTANT: we want you to clearly understand that this security hole is just one of the wholes that your blog can have, we do not pretent to say that the guide which will be published below gonna save you from all problems. If you are looking for a more professional and automatic solution to improving your WordPress blog security – we recommend using this script it is a multi site license.

Step 1. How to Check if Your Blog has this Security Hole

Type into the browser the following URL http://www.your-blog-name.com/wp-content/plugins and if you see a simple page which lists all your plugins – congratulations You have a problem. Luckily there is a way to fix it quite easily without being a tech geek.

via WordPress Security – Urgent Update for Blog Owners | Free Traffic System.