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by dangrossman 5434 days ago
There's no other way to inform most people about the problem. There's several thousand free WordPress themes in the wild, and obtaining them does not involve getting on the developers' mailing lists or otherwise being contact-able. Even if it was possible to notify every theme developer that may be including timthumb in their theme, those developers would have no way to notify the end users.