Version 5.9.10
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Summary
Security updates
This release features three security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. This minor release also includes 3 bug fixes in Core.
The security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities, and allowing them to be fixed in this release:
- A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the HTML API reported by Dennis Snell of the WordPress Core Team and Alex Concha and Grzegorz (Greg) Ziółkowski of the WordPress security team.
- A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Template Part block reported independently by Rafie Muhammad of Patchstack and during a third party security audit.
- A path traversal issue affecting sites hosted on Windows reported independently by Rafie M & Edouard L of Patchstack, David Fifield, x89, apple502j, and mishre.