{"id":16360541,"date":"2024-06-24T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/?post_type=helphub_version&#038;p=16360541"},"modified":"2024-06-24T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:59:12","slug":"version-4-2-38","status":"publish","type":"helphub_version","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wordpress-version\/version-4-2-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Version 4.2.38"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On June 24, 2024, WordPress 4.2.38 was released to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"installation-update-information\">Installation\/Update Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To get this version, update automatically from the Dashboard &gt; Updates menu in your site\u2019s admin area or visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/release-archive\/\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/release-archive\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/article\/updating-wordpress\/\">Updating WordPress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/article\/new_to_wordpress_-_where_to_start\/\">New To WordPress \u2013 Where to Start<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/article\/first-steps-with-wordpress\/\">First Steps With WordPress<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/article\/upgrading-wordpress-extended-instructions\/\">Upgrading WordPress Extended<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/article\/wordpress-lessons\/\">WordPress Lessons<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"maintenance-updates\">Security updates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This release features one security fix. Because this is a security release, <strong>it is recommended that you update your sites immediately.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The security team would like to thank the following people for <a href=\"https:\/\/hackerone.com\/wordpress?type=team\">responsibly reporting vulnerabilities<\/a>, and allowing them to be fixed in this release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A path traversal issue affecting sites hosted on Windows reported independently by Rafie M &amp; Edouard L of Patchstack, David Fifield, <a href=\"https:\/\/hackerone.com\/x89\">x89<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hackerone.com\/apple502j\">apple502j<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/hackerone.com\/mishre\">mishre<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"changelog\">Changelog<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"list-of-files-revised\">List of files revised<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\/wp-admin\/about.php<br><div>\/wp-includes\/functions.php\/wp-includes\/version.php<\/div><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 24, 2024, WordPress 4.2.38 was released to the public. Installation\/Update Information To get this version, update automatically from the Dashboard &gt; Updates menu in your site\u2019s admin area or visit&nbsp;https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/release-archive\/. For step-by-step instructions on installing and updating WordPress: If you are new to WordPress, we recommend that you begin with the following: Summary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false},"helphub_major_release":[],"class_list":["post-16360541","helphub_version","type-helphub_version","status-publish","hentry"],"revision_note":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions\/16360541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/helphub_version"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions\/16360541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16360542,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wordpress-versions\/16360541\/revisions\/16360542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16360541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"helphub_major_release","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helphub_major_release?post=16360541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}