Movable Type Security

blahblah has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I was looking around the net and came upon Movable Type (which is suprising that I just found it now). Anyhow, I am considering installing it on my server, but I wanted to touch base with the community here to see what everyone's impression of this set of perl scripts is from a security standpoint. I thought I might be able to get non-biased opinions here and google didn't turn up much for me.

Thanks, Alex

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Re: Movable Type Security by enoch (Chaplain) on Aug 29, 2003 at 18:24 UTC
I run it Alpha-Geek.com: Dichotomy's Purgatory. There has been some security issues in the past and patches have been released -- movabletype.org: News, but all in all, I haven't had any trouble with it. Our own Elian, Perl 6 internals architect, runs it, too, at Squawks of the Parrot. <-- Very good reading material. enoch	[reply]
Re: Movable Type Security by thraxil (Prior) on Aug 29, 2003 at 19:06 UTC
it's probably worth mentioning that Movable Type was written by btrott, who is a saint here. based on that alone, i would assume that it is at least above average security-wise. but be careful of the various 3rd party plugins that have been written to plugin to MT. the quality and security of those varies greatly. anders pearson	[reply]