{"id":14320401,"date":"2021-04-15T01:31:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T01:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=helphub_version&amp;p=14320401"},"modified":"2021-04-15T01:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T01:31:45","slug":"version-5-4-5","status":"publish","type":"helphub_version","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wordpress-version\/version-5-4-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Version 5.4.5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On April 14, 2021, WordPress 5.4.5 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 get this version, 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:<\/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:<\/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<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Security updates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Two security issues affect WordPress versions between 4.7 and 5.7. If you haven\u2019t yet updated to 5.7, all WordPress versions since 4.7 have also been updated to fix the following security issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonarsource.com\/\">SonarSource<\/a> for reporting an XXE vulnerability within the media library affecting PHP 8<\/li><li>thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/mikaelkorpela.fi\/\">Mikael Korpela<\/a> for reporting a data exposure vulnerability within the latest posts block and REST API<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to all of the reporters for <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/handbook\/testing\/reporting-security-vulnerabilities\/\">privately disclosing the vulnerabilities<\/a>. This gave the security team time to fix the vulnerabilities before WordPress sites could be attacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Props to <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/zieladam\/\">Adam Zielinski<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/swissspidy\/\">Pascal Birchler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/peterwilsoncc\/\">Peter Wilson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/jrf\/\">Juliette Reinders Folmer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/xknown\/\">Alex Concha<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/ehtis\/\">Ehtisham Siddiqui<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/timothyblynjacobs\/\">Timothy Jacobs<\/a> and the WordPress security team for their work on these issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 5.4.5 release was led by <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/peterwilsoncc\/\">@peterwilsoncc<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/audrasjb\/\">@audrasjb<\/a>.<\/p>\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\/ID3\/getid3.lib.php\nwp-includes\/rest-api\/endpoints\/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php\nwp-includes\/blocks\/latest-posts.php\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Updated packages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">block-directory: 1.18.13\nblock-library: 2.28.10\nedit-post: 3.26.13\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 14, 2021, WordPress 5.4.5 was released to the public. 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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":[65],"class_list":["post-14320401","helphub_version","type-helphub_version","status-publish","hentry","helphub_major_release-5_4"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions\/14320401","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\/14320401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14320401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"helphub_major_release","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helphub_major_release?post=14320401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}