{"id":6785,"date":"2015-09-15T19:21:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T19:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstix.com\/2015\/09\/15\/wordpress-431-is-out\/"},"modified":"2015-09-15T19:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T19:21:35","slug":"wordpress-431-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/support-blog\/wordpress-431-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.3.1 is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>WordPress 4.3.1 Released<\/h2>\n<p>A security release has been issued from WordPress:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2015\/09\/wordpress-4-3-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress 4.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release<\/a> (wordpress.org)<\/p>\n<p>WordPress 4.3.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.<\/p>\n<p>This release addresses three issues, including two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential privilege escalation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress versions 4.3 and earlier are vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability when processing shortcode tags (CVE-2015-5714). Reported by Shahar Tal and Netanel Rubin of Check Point.<\/li>\n<li>A separate cross-site scripting vulnerability was found in the user list table. Reported by Ben Bidner of the WordPress security team.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, in certain cases, users without proper permissions could publish private posts and make them sticky (CVE-2015-5715). Reported by Shahar Tal and Netanel Rubin of Check Point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All of our clients running WordPress need to upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Our <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/support\/website-maintenance-services\/\" title=\"Website Maintenance Services\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"483094\">Website Maintenance<\/a> Department will be in contact with you regarding these upgrades. Clients that have signed up for our <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/joomla-wordpress-magento-upgrade-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">Automatic WordPress Update Program<\/a> will get their website updated promptly.<\/p>\n<p>View the complete list of <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/WordPress_Versions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress versions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about why <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/help-with-wordpress-updatesupgrades\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress updates are important<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Tony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.3.1 Released A security release has been issued from WordPress: WordPress 4.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release (wordpress.org) WordPress 4.3.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. This release addresses three issues, including two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_tldrpress_summary":"","_tldrpress_summary_type":"","_tldrpress_summary_length":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.webstix.net\/WSX\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}