by Mike | May 27, 2022 | TechNews, WordPress
Inspired by Grammy-winning jazz musician, Arturo O’Farrill, WordPress 6.0 was released on May 24th. Though the focus continues to be on Full Site Editing (FSE), there are many other features under the hood that may benefit ESC! Technologies Group’s clients even...
by Mike | Mar 11, 2022 | TechAlert, WordPress
WordPress 5.9.2 was released March 10th, 2022. This update includes 1 bug fix as well as patches for one high-severity vulnerability and two medium-severity security issues. Per Our Friends at Wordfence: “The high-severity issue affects version 5.9.0 and 5.9.1...
by Mike | Mar 11, 2022 | TechAlert, WordPress
On March 10, 2022, the Woo Team announced a security patch for all branches of WooCommerce going back to version 3.5. This patch fixed several security flaws discovered within the PayPal Standard payment gateway which was installed as default up through WooCommerce...
by Mike | Feb 7, 2022 | TechNews, WordPress
Named in honor of Joséphine Baker, WordPress 5.9 was released in late January. While its major new headline feature, Full Site Editing, is not something most ESC! Technologies Group clients will necessarily benefit from, it does bring a number of improvements for...
by Mike | Jul 15, 2021 | TechAlert, TechNews, WordPress
On the evening of July 14, 2021, the Woo Team made public a critical vulnerability in all versions of WooCommerce (from 3.3 to 5.5) and the WooCommerce Blocks plugin. This vulnerability was originally identified and responsibly disclosed by security researcher Josh,...
by Mike | Apr 15, 2021 | TechAlert, WordPress
WordPress 5.7.1 was released today. This important update includes 26 bug fixes as well as patches for two security issues: an XXE vulnerability within the media library affecting PHP 8 and a data exposure vulnerability within the REST API. Versions of WordPress...
