Security advisories for phpAdsNew & blogging software

[airdick]

I saw this advisory linked over on Slashdot for vulenabilities in php xml-rpc libraries used in a lot of blogging packages:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/20..._exploits.html

The xml-rpc library in phpAdsNew is also vulnerable:

http://phpadsnew.com/two/nucleus/index.php

The good news is that you can protect phpAdsNew right now by simply deleting or moving a single file if you don't feel comfortable installing the upgrade on your own.