Software Update: WordPress 5.7.2

Version 5.7.2 of WordPress has been released. With this program, which is made available under a GPL license, it is possible to set up and maintain a website or blog. WordPress is easy to set up and can be up and running within five minutes if a server with PHP and MySQL is already available. There are possibilities to further extend the functionality of WordPress with plugins and the look with themes to adjust. The changelog for version 5.7.2 looks like this:

Security Updates

One security issue affecting WordPress versions between 3.7 and 5.7. If you haven’t yet updated to 5.7, all WordPress versions since 3.7 have also been updated to fix the following security issue:

• Object injection in PHP Mailer, CVE-2020-36326 and CVE-2018-19296.

Thank you to the members of the WordPress security team for implementing these fixes in WordPress.