WordPress 3.9.2 Update Released

“WordPress 3.9.2 this is a security update.”

WordPress 3.9.2 is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

WordPress 3.9.2 is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress 3.9.2 is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

WordPress 3.9.2 started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes.

Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

Changes Details

• Fixes a possible denial of service issue in PHP’s XML processing, reported by Nir Goldshlager of the Salesforce.com Product Security Team. Fixed by Michael Adams and Andrew Nacin of the WordPress security team and David Rothstein of the Drupal security team.
• Fixes a possible but unlikely code execution when processing widgets (WordPress is not affected by default), discovered by Alex Concha of the WordPress security team.
• Prevents information disclosure via XML entity attacks in the external GetID3 library, reported by Ivan Novikov of ONSec.
• Adds protections against brute attacks against CSRF tokens, reported by David Tomaschik of the Google Security Team.
• Contains some additional security hardening, like preventing cross-site scripting that could be triggered only by administrators.

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