{"id":3682,"date":"2015-05-07T04:19:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T04:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpopal.com\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2015-05-07T04:19:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T04:19:28","slug":"wordpress-4-2-2-security-and-maintenance-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wordpress-4-2-2-security-and-maintenance-release\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 4.2.2 Security and Maintenance Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days ago we updated\u00a0\u00a0Wordpress version 4.2 and 4.2.1 and now we applause to welcome WordPress 4.2.2 Security and Maintenance Release. Right now it is available and this\u00a0is a critical security and maintenance released for all previous versions. <a class=\"blue\" href=\"https:\/\/wpopal.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opal WordPress<\/a> quickly updates latest new to all our customers and we follow the great introduction article about WordPress 4.2.2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">WordPress.org<\/a>. We publish it on our blog hoping that you can catch on\u00a0the newest information and update your sites immediately. Now let&#8217;s enjoy the excellent changes of WordPress 4.2.2!<br \/>\nVersion 4.2.2 addresses two security issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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 scripting attack. All affected themes and plugins hosted on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">WordPress.org<\/a>\u00a0(including the Twenty Fifteen default theme) have been updated today by the WordPress security team to address this issue by removing this nonessential file.\u00a0To help protect other Genericons usage, WordPress 4.2.2 proactively scans the wp-content directory for this HTML file and removes it. Reported by\u00a0Robert Abela of Netsparker.<\/li>\n<li>WordPress versions 4.2 and earlier are affected by a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise a site. WordPress 4.2.2 includes a comprehensive fix for this issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, the <strong>WordPress 4.2.2<\/strong> version provides fixes for 13 bugs, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixes an emoji loading error in Internet Explorer 9 and Internet Explorer 10<\/li>\n<li>Fixes a keyboard shortcut for saving from the Visual editor on Mac<\/li>\n<li>Fixes oEmbed for YouTube URLs to always expect https<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is time for all of you to download file zip wordpress version 4.2.2 and update it on your site. Only need some simple steps you have a perfect website with the newest verion: Please\u00a0go to\u00a0<strong>Dashboard &gt; Updates<\/strong> and select <strong>Update Now<\/strong>. We provide the below download link, you click it and download! Remember to follow our social channels (<a class=\"blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/opalwordpress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a class=\"blue\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a class=\"blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/home?trk=nav_responsive_tab_home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Linkedin<\/a>, <a class=\"blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WPOpalTheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Youtube,<\/a> <a class=\"blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/cunconvp192\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Pinterest<\/a>) to update the latest information!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days ago we updated\u00a0\u00a0Wordpress version 4.2 and 4.2.1 and now we applause to welcome WordPress 4.2.2 Security and Maintenance Release. 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Opal WordPress quickly updates latest new to all our customers and we follow the great introduction article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.wpopal.com\/wpopal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}