{"id":3718,"date":"2015-05-07T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2022-11-18T22:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:53:52","slug":"wordpress-4-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2015\/05\/wordpress-4-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.2.2 Security and Maintenance Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
WordPress 4.2.2 is now available. This is a critical security release<\/strong> for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.<\/p>\n Version 4.2.2 addresses two security issues:<\/p>\n The release also includes hardening for a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability when using the visual editor. This issue was reported by Mahadev Subedi.<\/p>\n Our thanks to those who have practiced responsible disclosure<\/a> of security issues.<\/p>\n WordPress 4.2.2 also contains fixes for 13 bugs from 4.2. For more information, see the release notes<\/a> or consult the list of changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Download WordPress 4.2.2<\/a> or venture over to Dashboard \u2192 Updates and simply click \u201cUpdate Now.\u201d Sites that support automatic background updates are already beginning to update to WordPress 4.2.2.<\/p>\n Thanks to everyone who contributed to 4.2.2:<\/p>\n Aaron Jorbin<\/a>, Andrew Ozz<\/a>, Andrew Nacin<\/a>, Boone Gorges<\/a>, Dion Hulse<\/a>, Ella Iseulde Van Dorpe<\/a>, Gary Pendergast<\/a>, Hinaloe<\/a>, Jeremy Felt<\/a>, John James Jacoby<\/a>, Konstantin Kovshenin<\/a>, Mike Adams<\/a>, Nikolay Bachiyski<\/a>, taka2<\/a>, and willstedt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 4.2.2 is now available. This is a critical security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. Version 4.2.2 addresses two security issues: The Genericons icon font package, which is used in a number of popular themes and plugins, contained an HTML file vulnerable to a cross-site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12560283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[164,437],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","category-security","tag-4-2","tag-minor-releases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-XY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13949,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/13949"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/samuelsidler"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n