{"id":12225760,"date":"2019-12-13T00:46:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T00:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=helphub_version&amp;p=12225760"},"modified":"2019-12-13T00:46:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T00:46:27","slug":"version-4-6-17","status":"publish","type":"helphub_version","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wordpress-version\/version-4-6-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Version 4.6.17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 12, 2019, WordPress 4.6.17 was released to the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Installation\/Update Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To download WordPress 4.6.17, update automatically from the Dashboard &gt; Updates menu in your site&#8217;s admin area or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/release-archive\/\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/release-archive\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress:\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/article\/updating-wordpress\/\">Updating WordPress<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with the following:\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> <a href=\"\/support\/article\/new_to_wordpress_-_where_to_start\/\">New To WordPress &#8211; Where to Start<\/a><\/li><li> <a href=\"\/support\/article\/first-steps-with-wordpress\/\">First Steps With WordPress<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/article\/upgrading-wordpress-extended-instructions\/\">Upgrading WordPress Extended<\/a><\/li><li> <a href=\"\/support\/article\/wordpress-lessons\/\">WordPress Lessons<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wordpress-5-3-1-security-and-maintenance-release\">WordPress 5.3.1 release post<\/a>, WordPress versions 5.3 and earlier are affected by the following bugs, which are fixed in version 5.3.1. Updated versions of WordPress 5.2 and older releases since WordPress 3.7 are also available, for users who have not yet updated to 5.3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Props to Daniel Bachhuber for finding an issue where an unprivileged user could make a post sticky via the REST API.<\/li><li>Props to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ripstech.com\/authors\/simon-scannell\">Simon Scannell of RIPS Technologies<\/a> for finding and disclosing an issue where cross-site scripting (XSS) could be stored in well-crafted links.<\/li><li>Props to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress.org<\/a> Security Team for hardening <code>wp_kses_bad_protocol()<\/code> to ensure that it is aware of the named colon attribute.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">List of Files Revised<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">wp-includes\/kses.php&nbsp;\nwp-includes\/default-filters.php\nwp-includes\/formatting.php<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 12, 2019, WordPress 4.6.17 was released to the public. Installation\/Update Information To download WordPress 4.6.17, update automatically from the Dashboard &gt; Updates menu in your site&#8217;s admin area or visit https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/release-archive\/. For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress: Updating WordPress If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","helphub_major_release":[50],"class_list":["post-12225760","helphub_version","type-helphub_version","status-publish","hentry","helphub_major_release-4_6"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions\/12225760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/helphub_version"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions\/12225760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12225760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"helphub_major_release","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helphub_major_release?post=12225760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}