NY Times leaves backdoor open on new politics blog?

By Robert Niles: Thanks to Lisa Stone for this tip:

Daily Gotham publisher Liza Sabater discovered an unreleased New York politics blog being developed by the New York Times's website. How? The new blog includes a link to Sabater's site and she found it by checking her referrer logs. (If you publish a website, you *do* check your referrer logs on a daily basis, right?)

But... The Times web staff did not configure its new blog, which apparently runs on the WordPress platform, to keep outside readers from claiming writing privileges. So Sabater was able to log in and post to the Times' blog. (She describes the incident in full on her CultureKitchen website. She posts it as a blind item, but the included screen shot makes quite clear that the site is the New York Times'.)

"You've overlooked what I would consider a huge detail in blog development : You never, ever leave the login permissions open while mired in testing and development," Sabater wrote to The Times in a message she republished on her site.

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