Catcloud Wordress Plugin Security and Performance Update

Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
After putting off some very, very simple work for far too long, I've finally fixed the security hole in catcloud that is mentioned here. I've also fixed the very lazily written code that grabbed the [...]

Possible CSRF in Catcloud

Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
Alex over at http://www.buayacorp.com posits (in Spanish) that catcloud is vulnerable to cross-site request forgeries (CSRF) - he may well be right. I've asked him for more information.
Amusingly enough, despite having catcloud on his list [...]

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Catcloud Wordress Plugin Updated for WordPress 2.1

Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
I just made a minor tweak to make the Catcloud plugin work with WordPress 2.1. Grab the most recent version of the plugin at http://zak.greant.com/catcloud

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