WordPress 5.4.2 is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This security and maintenance release features 23 fixes and enhancements. Plus, it adds a number of security fixes\u2014see the list below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These bugs affect WordPress versions 5.4.1 and earlier; version 5.4.2 fixes them, so you\u2019ll want to upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you haven\u2019t yet updated to 5.4, there are also updated versions of 5.3 and earlier that fix the bugs for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WordPress versions 5.4 and earlier are affected by the following bugs, which are fixed in version 5.4.2. If you haven\u2019t yet updated to 5.4, there are also updated versions of 5.3 and earlier that fix the security issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you to all of the reporters for 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 One maintenance update was also deployed to versions 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3. See the related developer note<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can browse the full list of changes on Trac<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more info, browse the full list of changes on Trac or check out the Version 5.4.2 documentation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress 5.4.2 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be version 5.5<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can download WordPress 5.4.2 from the button at the top of this page, or visit your Dashboard \u2192 Updates<\/strong> and click Update Now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they\u2019ve already started the update process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the security researchers mentioned above, thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.4.2 happen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrea Fercia<\/a>, argentite<\/a>, M Asif Rahman<\/a>, Jb Audras<\/a>, Ayesh Karunaratne<\/a>, bdcstr<\/a>, Delowar Hossain<\/a>, Rob Migchels<\/a>, donmhico<\/a>, Ehtisham Siddiqui<\/a>, Emilie LEBRUN<\/a>, finomeno<\/a>, garethgillman<\/a>, Giorgio25b<\/a>, Gabriel Maldonado<\/a>, Hector F<\/a>, Ian Belanger<\/a>, Aaron Jorbin<\/a>, Mathieu Viet<\/a>, Javier Casares<\/a>, Joe McGill<\/a>, jonkolbert<\/a>, Jono Alderson<\/a>, Joy<\/a>, Tammie Lister<\/a>, Kjell Reigstad<\/a>, KT<\/a>, markusthiel<\/a>, Mayank Majeji<\/a>, Mel Choyce-Dwan<\/a>, mislavjuric<\/a>, Mukesh Panchal<\/a>, Nikhil Bhansi<\/a>, oakesjosh<\/a>, Dominik Schilling<\/a>, Arslan Ahmed<\/a>, Peter Wilson<\/a>, Carolina Nymark<\/a>, Stephen Bernhardt<\/a>, Sam Fullalove<\/a>, Alain Schlesser<\/a>, Sergey Biryukov<\/a>, skarabeq<\/a>, Daniel Richards<\/a>, Toni Viemer\u00f6<\/a>, suzylah<\/a>, Timothy Jacobs<\/a>, TeBenachi<\/a>, Jake Spurlock<\/a> and yuhin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 5.4.2 is now available! This security and maintenance release features 23 fixes and enhancements. Plus, it adds a number of security fixes\u2014see the list below. These bugs affect WordPress versions 5.4.1 and earlier; version 5.4.2 fixes them, so you\u2019ll want to upgrade. If you haven\u2019t yet updated to 5.4, there are also updated versions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1182764,"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-8592","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-2eA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592","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\/1182764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8592"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13937,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions\/13937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Thanks and props!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n