Gary Pendergast: Curing a Critical Security Bug

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December 11, 2015

Earlier this year, we released a bug fix for one of the most complex and severe security issues WordPress has ever had – the Trojan Emoji bug. (So good it got its own name!)
In this talk, we’ll take a look at the initial report, reconstruct how we got to the eventual solution, and discuss what we learned along the way.

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WordCamp US 2015 76

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Gary Pendergast 9

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debugging 35
Security 302

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English 10531

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