{"id":3603,"date":"2009-11-12T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/12\/wordpress-2-8-6-is-released-to-address-security-issues\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T23:33:10","slug":"wordpress-2-8-6-is-released-to-address-security-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/11\/12\/wordpress-2-8-6-is-released-to-address-security-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 2.8.6 is released to address security issues."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you self-installed WordPress, you should upgrade to the latest release. <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2009\/11\/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress 2.8.6<\/a> is now available.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"upgrade to WordPress 2.8.6\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/upgrade-to-WordPress-2.8.6.png\" alt=\"upgrade to WordPress 2.8.6\" width=\"298\" height=\"51\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is available through the built-in upgrade feature or it can be downloaded from <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress.org<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.zip\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2009\/11\/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.\u00a0 If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch.\u00a0 The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be a Scoble!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you self-installed WordPress, you should upgrade to the latest release. WordPress 2.8.6 is now available. It is available through the built-in upgrade feature or it can be downloaded from WordPress.org. http:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.zip About WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release: 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/11\/12\/wordpress-2-8-6-is-released-to-address-security-issues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WordPress 2.8.6 is released to address security issues.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[403,404,529,2009,2511,2648,936,3039,3085,3238],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-blog","tag-media","tag-resources","tag-security","tag-tech","tag-troubleshooting","tag-updates","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-W7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}