Malicious hackers have pounced on a zero-day vulnerability in a widely used image-resizing utility that ships with themes for the popular WordPress blogging platform.
The timthumb utility, used to handlecropping, zooming and resizing web images, is used by millions of blogs running certain themes and because it writes files into a directory during the image-resizing process, it can be used to launch web attacks.
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