{"id":1641,"date":"2010-12-29T21:50:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T21:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:00:09","slug":"3-0-4-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2010\/12\/3-0-4-update\/","title":{"rendered":"3.0.4 Important Security Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/download\/\">for download here<\/a>, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as &#8220;critical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This issue affects all versions of WordPress prior to 3.0.4, so if you are still on a 2.X release you need to update as well.<\/p>\n<p>I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for. In the spirit of the holidays, consider helping your friends as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a security researcher, we&#8217;d appreciate you <a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/changeset\/17172\/branches\/3.0\">taking a look over this changeset<\/a> as well to review our update. We&#8217;ve given it a lot of thought and review but since this is so core we want as many brains on it as possible. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sneaked.net\">Mauro Gentile<\/a> and <a title=\"duck undah\" href=\"http:\/\/joncave.co.uk\">Jon Cave (duck_)<\/a> who discovered and alerted us to these XSS vulnerabilities first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download here, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as &#8220;critical.&#8221; This issue affects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","category-security","tag-3-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-qt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}