Why would you doubt they would patch it? Everything indicates that Apple takes this type of security somewhat seriously.
Looks like it might have been patched already. FTA:
>Further research suggests this could be the issue detailed in CVE-2014-4451 but this has yet to be confirmed. We plan to test the same attack on an 8.2 device and will update with our progress.
The article was posted a week ago, but there are no updates about iOS 8.2 as of today and since it shouldn't be too long to just upgrade iOS and see if after 10 attempts the device gets wiped I'm guessing that the fix for CVE-2014-4451 actually patched this but the news wasn't as interesting as it would've been "iOS 8.2 vulnerable too" to update the post with
Yeah Apple is pretty serious on security honestly. I expect to see a patch or write up here shortly.