{"id":5215,"date":"2017-11-29T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2022-11-18T22:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:53:14","slug":"wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2017\/11\/wordpress-4-9-1-security-and-maintenance-release\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.9.1 Security and Maintenance Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
WordPress 4.9.1 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release<\/strong> for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress versions 4.9 and earlier are affected by four security issues which could potentially be exploited as part of a multi-vector attack. As part of the core team's ongoing commitment to security hardening, the following fixes have been implemented in 4.9.1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to the reporters of these issues for practicing responsible security disclosure<\/a>: Rahul Pratap Singh<\/a> and John Blackbourn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eleven other bugs were fixed in WordPress 4.9.1. Particularly of note were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This post has more information about all of the issues fixed in 4.9.1 if you'd like to learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Download WordPress 4.9.1<\/a> or venture over to Dashboard \u2192 Updates and click "Update Now." Sites that support automatic background updates are already beginning to update automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to everyone who contributed to WordPress 4.9.1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alain Schlesser<\/a>, Andrea Fercia<\/a>, Angelika Reisiger<\/a>, Blobfolio<\/a>, bobbingwide<\/a>, Chetan Prajapati<\/a>, Dion Hulse<\/a>, Dominik Schilling (ocean90)<\/a>, edo888<\/a>, Erich Munz<\/a>, Felix Arntz<\/a>, Florian TIAR<\/a>, Gary Pendergast<\/a>, Igor Benic<\/a>, Jeff Farthing<\/a>, Jeffrey Paul<\/a>, jeremyescott<\/a>, Joe McGill<\/a>, John Blackbourn<\/a>, johnpgreen<\/a>, Kelly Dwan<\/a>, lenasterg<\/a>, Marius L. J.<\/a>, Mel Choyce<\/a>, M\u00e1rio Valney<\/a>, natacado<\/a>, odyssey<\/a>, precies<\/a>, Sa\u0161a<\/a>, Sergey Biryukov<\/a>, and Weston Ruter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 4.9.1 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.9 and earlier are affected by four security issues which could potentially be exploited as part of a multi-vector attack. As part of the core team's […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42547,"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":[437],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","category-security","tag-minor-releases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-1m7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10689,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/10689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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