WordPress v3.4.2 Maintenance and Security Release Available For Download

WordPress v3.4.2 which is a maintenance and security release has been released to the public for download a few days ago. WordPress 3.4.2 fixes a few security issues and contains some security hardening. The vulnerabilities included potential privilege escalation and a bug that affects multisite installs with untrusted users. These issues were discovered and fixed by the WordPress security team.
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WordPress v3.3.2 Automatic Update Security Threat Discovered

A security threat has been found in the automatic update feature of WordPress with net-security.org alleging that over 1’000+ WordPress powered websites have been affected thus far due to the vulnerability. Affected sites are said to redirect the visitor to affiliate, malware, pay-per-click re-directors, and low quality PPC search result aggregators.

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