Just three hours ago, WordPress issued two security updates for it’s currently mantained branches(2.0 & 2.1). WordPress 2.1.3 is the latest upgrade for the WP 2.1 series and 2.0.10 is for WP 2.0 series. Consider it a highly recomended as of these are securty upgrades. I am sure you don’t want someone mess around with your blog .

Both releases contain fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue (This is the serious one, which might give attackers control of your blog). WordPress promises that this time they are aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications. I truly hope the previous scenario won’t be repeated.

So what are you waiting for head up to WordPress dowanload site and do the upgrades. After all “safety first”, isn’t it?