Ways of installing Cake

I got this from the Cake website:

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A development installation is the fastest method to setup Cake. This example will help you install a CakePHP application and make it available at [url]http://www.example.com/cake_1_2/[/url]. We assume for the purposes of this example that your document root is set to /var/www/html.

Unpack the contents of the Cake archive into /var/www/html. You now have a folder in your document root named after the release you’ve downloaded (e.g. cake_1.2.0.7962). Rename this folder to cake_1_2. Your development setup will look like this on the file system:

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However I have been told this is a vulnerable way of installing cake. Can anyone tell me why this is?

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