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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2022.6292
             WordPress 5.9.2 Security and Maintenance Release
                              2 December 2022

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           WordPress
Publisher:         WordPress
Operating System:  Windows
                   UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade

Original Bulletin: 
   https://wordpress.org/news/2022/03/wordpress-5-9-2-security-maintenance-release/

Comment: CVSS (Max):  None available when published

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WordPress 5.9.2 Security and Maintenance Release

WordPress 5.9.2 is now available!

This security and maintenance release features 1 bug fix in addition to 3
security fixes. Because this is a security release , it is recommended that you
update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 3.7 have also been
updated.

WordPress 5.9.2 is a security and maintenance release. The next major release
will be version 6.0 .

You can download WordPress 5.9.2 from WordPress.org , or visit your Dashboard ->
Updates and click "Update Now".

If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they've already
started the update process.

The security team would like to thank the following people for responsively
reporting vulnerabilities, allowing them to be fixed in this release:

  o Melar Dev, for finding a Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in a jQuery
    dependency
  o Ben Bidner of the WordPress security team, for finding a Stored Cross Site
    Scripting Vulnerability
  o Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, for finding a Prototype
    Pollution Vulnerability in the block editor

For more information, browse the full list of changes on Trac, or check out the
version 5.9.2 HelpHub documentation page .

Thanks and props!

The 5.9.2 release was led by Jb Audras , with the help of Jorge Costa on
package updates, Sergey Biryukov on mission control, and David Baumwald on
backport commits.

In addition to the release squad members and security researchers mentioned
above, thank you to everyone who helped make WordPress 5.9.2 happen:

Alan Jacob Mathew , Alex Concha , Andre , Anton Vlasenko , David Baumwald ,
ehtis , Jb Audras , Jorge Costa , Peter Wilson , Sergey Biryukov , Tonya Mork ,
and ironprogrammer .

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