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In today's digital world, website security is a priority. In WordPress, as one of the most widely used content management platforms, it is no stranger to cyber threats. In this article, we will tell you how to WordPress and its latest update for vulnerability to remote attack, version 6.4.2, focuses on addressing critical flaws to ensure the protection of users and their websites.
Security and Maintenance Update
The new Wordpress 6.4.2 update is released due to a critical security flaw.
Wordpress and its security team have fixed a remote code execution vulnerability. This remote code execution vulnerability that, while not directly exploitable in the core component, was of concern to the security team due to its potential severity when combined with certain plugins, especially in multi-site installation environments.
Cause of Failure
As mentioned this articleAccording to the WordPress security company Wordfence, this bug is believed to have originated in the WP_HTML_ Token class, which was included in version 6.4 to improvise HTML parsing in the block editor.
A malicious actor with the ability to exploit a PHP object injection vulnerability present in any other plugin or theme to chain both issues together and execute arbitrary code, thus taking control of the specific site.
According to Wordfence, if a POP (property-oriented programming) string exists via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, this could allow the attacker to indiscriminately delete files, retrieve sensitive information or execute code.
Adjustments Made by WordPress
These are the settings implemented by WordPress as provided in the official WordPress documentation at this article.
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