Switch To Latest Security Release Version of WordPress 4.2.4

WILMINGTON, Del. - Aug. 10, 2015 - PRLog -- WordPress has released a critical security update of version 4.2.4 officially. If you have a WordPress powered business website which is self-hosted, then it is highly recommended to update your website with this latest security release. This critical security update mends six issues, out of which three are cross-site scripting vulnerabilities with a potential SQL injection which can be exploited to avoid infringement of the website.

This critical update also checks the flaw that could enable a potential timing side-channel attack along with preventing an attacker to lock a post from being edited.

Wordpress 4.2.4 has been launched just after two weeks of the release of its predecessor WordPress 4.2.3. This penultimate version had been a security and maintenance update capable of addressing 20 bugs and 2 security issues. The latter version WordPress 4.2.4 includes the solutions for four more bugs fixes from 4.2.3 and they are recapitulated below ( as mentioned in WordPress release note):

FIX - WPDB: Rely on the return value of the strings which were sent to the database while checking the encoding of the strings against the database. #32279

FIX - Specifically check the output of glob() to be an array. #33093

FIX - Shortcodes: Handle do_shortcode('<[shortcode]') edge cases. #33116

FIX - Shortcodes: Protect newlines inside of CDATA. #33106

WordPress 4.2.4 accounts to the 5th version update within the year by WordPress Security Team. The released security updates as of now are: WordPress 4.1.2/ 4.2.1 /4.2.2 / 4.2.3 / 4.2.4

With an inbuilt option of automatic security updates, it automatically updates the website to this latest version while the users who aren't using this option can easily download the latest version by visiting the WordPress website or through their dashboard.

Hence, all the WordPress users must readily update their website with this latest security release WordPress 4.2.4 in order to ensure the security of their websites.

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