If you haven’t updated your WordPress installation to 5.9.2 you must take action and update it after reading this article. On March 11th, 2022 WordPress released the version 5.9.2 which contains security patches for a high-severity vulnerability and two medium-severity issues. The high-severity issue affects the versions 5.9.0 and 5.9.1 and the medium-severity issues impacts earlier versions of 5.9.2.
This is the high-severity issue:
Contributor+ Stored Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Affected Versions: WordPress Core 5.9.0-5.9.1 Fully Patched Version: 5.9.2 Researcher: Ben Bidner of the WordPress security team Affected plugin: guttenberg
These are the medium-severity issues:
Prototype Pollution in jQuery
Affected Versions: WordPress Core
Prototype Pollution via the Gutenberg wordpress/url package
Affected Versions: WordPress Core
WordPress Security – Checking your Current Version
Because WordPress security releases are considered very important visit your website and check the current version installed.
After connecting to your website go to dashboard then scroll down and check the version on the bottom of the page (right corner)
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Reference: https://wordpress.org
