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WordPress 3.3.2 Security Update

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

wordpress 3.3.2 security update

WP security update

WordPress published version 3.3.2. It is critical security update. According to WordPress Developers Blog, three external libraries included in WordPress (Plupload, SWFUpload, SWFObject) received security updates. WordPress 3.3.2 also addresses:
– Limited privilege escalation where a site administrator could deactivate network-wide plugins when running a WordPress network under particular circumstances.
– Cross-site scripting vulnerability when making URLs clickable.
– Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in redirects after posting comments in older browsers, and when filtering URLs.
Full list of changes made in version 3.3.2 is available here.
PHP delevelpers could see changes in source code directly using this link.
If you didn’t install this update yet, consider to do it right now. It’s very important to defend your lovely blog as much as possible.

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