{"id":934,"date":"2018-04-11T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T22:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2018-04-11T05:58:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T22:58:12","slug":"wordpress-4-9-5-security-and-maintenance-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/11\/wordpress-4-9-5-security-and-maintenance-release.html","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.9.5 Security and Maintenance Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.9.5 is now available. This is a\u00a0<strong>security and maintenance release<\/strong>\u00a0for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. Please login into your\u00a0\u00a0Dashboard ? Updates and click \u201cUpdate Now\u201d. Sites that support automatic background updates are already beginning to update automatically.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress versions 4.9.4 and earlier are affected by three security issues. As part of the core team&#8217;s ongoing commitment to security hardening, the following fixes have been implemented in 4.9.5:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don&#8217;t treat\u00a0<code>localhost<\/code>\u00a0as same host by default.<\/li>\n<li>Use safe redirects when redirecting the login page if SSL is forced.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure the version string is correctly escaped for use in generator tags.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress 4.9.5 is now available. This is a\u00a0security and maintenance release\u00a0for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. Please login into your\u00a0\u00a0Dashboard ? Updates and click \u201cUpdate Now\u201d. Sites that support automatic background updates are already beginning to update automatically. WordPress versions 4.9.4 and earlier are affected by\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/11\/wordpress-4-9-5-security-and-maintenance-release.html\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}