New WordPress Version Now Available

WordPress version 3.3.2 has been released.

Automatic, the developers of WordPress have released the latest version of WordPress as a minor one to correct some bugs and issues with the current version 3.3.1, That version has been very stable and reliable. Following is the actual announcement of the latest version from WordPress.org and of note is the security enhancements to external libraries.

If you hare hosting your own WordPress site, you can upgrade your site from the administrator panel inside of WordPress. For creating new sites, the new version is available at WordPress or if you are using a hosting provider to host your site, their cPanel interface should provide you with the latest version to create your new WordPress site.

From WordPress.org new site comes the details for the latest version.

• Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates: Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media.


• SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading media, and may still be in use by plugins.


• SWFObject, which WordPress previously used to embed Flash content, and may still be in use by plugins and themes.

Thanks to Neal Poole and Nathan Partlan for responsibly disclosing the bugs in Plupload and SWFUpload, and Szymon Gruszecki for a separate bug in SWFUpload.WordPress 3.3.2 also addresses:

• Limited privilege escalation where a site administrator could deactivate network-wide plugins when running a WordPress network under particular circumstances, disclosed by Jon Cave of our WordPress core security team, and Adam Backstrom.

• Cross-site scripting vulnerability when making URLs clickable, by Jon Cave.

• Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in redirects after posting comments in older browsers, and when filtering URLs. Thanks to Mauro Gentile for responsibly disclosing these issues to the security team.

These issues were fixed by the WordPress core security team. Five other bugs were also fixed in version 3.3.2. Consult the change log for more details.

In another part of the information, WordPress has already started working on the next version of WordPress 3.4 Beta 3 which is available for download if you are so inclined.