WordPress 4.9.7 Security and Maintenance Release

  • Friday, 6th July, 2018
  • 17:17pm
Dear Valued Clients,

We strongly urge you to update immediately. Quoting WordPress --

"WordPress 4.9.7 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 4.9.6 and earlier are affected by a media issue that could potentially allow a user with certain capabilities to attempt to delete files outside the uploads directory.

Seventeen other bugs were fixed in WordPress 4.9.7. Particularly of note were:

  •     Taxonomy: Improve cache handling for term queries.
  •     Posts, Post Types: Clear post password cookie when logging out.
  •     Widgets: Allow basic HTML tags in sidebar descriptions on Widgets admin screen.
  •     Community Events Dashboard: Always show the nearest WordCamp if one is coming up, even if there are multiple Meetups happening first.
  •     Privacy: Make sure default privacy policy content does not cause a fatal error when flushing rewrite rules outside of the admin context."

If you have used Softaculous in cPanel to install WordPress, it is but a click of the "update/upgrade" button to quickly move on to the latest release.

Thank you,
Web.com.ph Team
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