{"id":9189,"date":"2020-10-29T20:41:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T20:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2022-11-18T22:49:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:49:55","slug":"wordpress-5-5-2-security-and-maintenance-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2020\/10\/wordpress-5-5-2-security-and-maintenance-release\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 5.5.2 Security and Maintenance Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
WordPress 5.5.2 is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This security and maintenance release features 14 bug fixes<\/a> in addition to 10 security fixes. Because this is a security release<\/strong>, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 3.7 have also been updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WordPress 5.5.2 is a short-cycle security and maintenance release. The next major release will be version 5.6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can download WordPress 5.5.2 by downloading from WordPress.org, or visit your Dashboard \u2192 Updates and click Update Now.<\/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 Ten security issues affect WordPress versions 5.5.1 and earlier. If you haven\u2019t yet updated to 5.5, all WordPress versions since 3.7 have also been updated to fix the following 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 For more information, browse the full list of changes<\/a> on Trac, or check out the version 5.5.2 HelpHub documentation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 5.5.2 release was led by @whyisjake<\/a> and the following release squad: @audrasjb<\/a>, @davidbaumwald<\/a>, @desrosj<\/a>, @johnbillion<\/a>, @metalandcoffee<\/a>, @noisysocks<\/a> @planningwrite<\/a>, @sarahricker<\/a> and @sergeybiryukov<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the security researchers and release squad members mentioned above, thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.5.2 happen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aaron Jorbin<\/a>, Alex Concha<\/a>, Amit Dudhat<\/a>, Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko<\/a>, Andy Fragen<\/a>, Ayesh Karunaratne<\/a>, bridgetwillard<\/a>, Daniel Richards<\/a>, David Baumwald<\/a>, Davis Shaver<\/a>, dd32<\/a>, Florian TIAR<\/a>, Hareesh<\/a>, Hugh Lashbrooke<\/a>, Ian Dunn<\/a>, Igor Radovanov<\/a>, Jake Spurlock<\/a>, Jb Audras<\/a>, John Blackbourn<\/a>, Jonathan Desrosiers<\/a>, Jon Brown<\/a>, Joy<\/a>, Juliette Reinders Folmer<\/a>, kellybleck<\/a>, mailnew2ster<\/a>, Marcus Kazmierczak<\/a>, Marius L. J.<\/a>, Milan Dini\u0107<\/a>, Mohammad Jangda<\/a>, Mukesh Panchal<\/a>, Paal Joachim Romdahl<\/a>, Peter Wilson<\/a>, Regan Khadgi<\/a>, Robert Anderson<\/a>, Sergey Biryukov<\/a>, Sergey Yakimov<\/a>, Syed Balkhi<\/a>, szaqal21<\/a>, Tellyworth<\/a>, Timi Wahalahti<\/a>, Timothy Jacobs<\/a>, Towhidul I. Chowdhury<\/a>, Vinayak Anivase<\/a>, and zieladam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WordPress 5.5.2 is now available! This security and maintenance release features 14 bug fixes in addition to 10 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 3.7 have also been updated. WordPress 5.5.2 is a short-cycle security and maintenance release. 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