WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release: WordPress.org’s Bug Bounty Program at Work
Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
Ram Dall over at Wordfence has a good breakdown of three vulnerabilities patched in the WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release. One is a high severity SQLi vulnerability in the links functionality, and the other two are medium severity Cross-Siteā¦
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