Akismet 3.1.5 is now available. Users are urged to update as soon as possible. Sucuri discovered an XSS vulnerability in the popular spam protection plugin that affects every version including and after 2.5.0. The vulnerability can be accessed through comments, so it should be stopped through the plugin’s comment-check API, but the safest option is to update anyway. For those with automatic updates, this is included and you don’t need to do anything at this time. All others need to update manually in the plugin directory or by updating directly through your WordPress dashboard. Though it isn’t clear if anyone […]