{"id":855,"date":"2013-09-12T02:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T01:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2013-09-12T02:01:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T01:01:07","slug":"wordpress-3-6-1-security-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wordpress-hosting\/wordpress-3-6-1-security-update","title":{"rendered":"WordPress 3.6.1 &#8211; security update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again, new wordpress update out that is required to secure your <a title=\"Wordpress web hosting\" href=\"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/wordpress-web-hosting.php\">wordpress web hosting<\/a> as it contains security fixes, updating immediately is recommended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WordPress 3.6.1 is also a security release for all previous WordPress versions<\/strong> and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. It addresses three issues fixed by the WordPress security team:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Block unsafe PHP unserialization that could occur in limited situations and setups, which can lead to remote code execution. Reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/vagosec.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tom Van Goethem<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Prevent a user with an Author role, using a specially crafted request, from being able to create a post \u201cwritten by\u201d another user. Reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/anakornk.wordpress.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anakorn Kyavatanakij<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Fix insufficient input validation that could result in redirecting or leading a user to another website. Reported by Dave Cummo, a Northrup Grumman subcontractor for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time again, new wordpress update out that is required to secure your wordpress web hosting as it contains security fixes, updating immediately is recommended. WordPress 3.6.1 is also a security release for all previous WordPress versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. It addresses three issues fixed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97],"tags":[130,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}