I have been using WordPress for this blog for several years and always thought my setup was reasonably secure. Turns out that there is something called the WordPress REST API which allows to get quite a lot information about the installation without any security at all. E.g. https://blog.dummzeuch.de/wp-json/wp/v2/users used to show a list of all … Continue reading How secure is your WordPress installation?
Month: October 2020
GExperts 1.3.17 experimental twm 2020-10-23 released
Guess what? The new GExperts release is here. There are lots of bug fixes and a few new features in the new version. The major new feature is the Filter Exceptions expert. Please be warned that there was a bug when developing for non-Windows targets. It might have been fixed, but I can't test it … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.17 experimental twm 2020-10-23 released
Contributing to projects on GitHub with Subversion
Many open source projects have moved from the former top dog SlashdotSourceForge to GitHub and in the process usually converted from Subversion to git. This also includes quite a few Delphi libraries like project Jedi (JCL/JVCL), SynEdit or Indy. I am not really comfortable with git, it just feels too complex for most projects and … Continue reading Contributing to projects on GitHub with Subversion