Version 6.3.2

On October 12, 2023, WordPress 6.3.2 was released to the public.

Installation/Update Information

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Summary

Maintenance updates

This security and maintenance release features 19 bug fixes on Core , 22 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 8 security fixes.

This is a short-cycle release. You can review a summary of the maintenance updates in this release by reading the Release Candidate announcement .

Security updates

The security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities, and allowing them to be fixed in this release:

  • Marc Montpas of Automattic for finding a potential disclosure of user email addresses.
  • Marc Montpas of Automattic for finding an RCE POP Chains vulnerability.
  • Rafie Muhammad and Edouard L of Patchstack along with a WordPress commissioned third-party audit for each independently identifying a XSS issue in the post link navigation block.
  • Jb Audras of the WordPress Security Team and Rafie Muhammad of Patchstack for each independently discovering an issue where comments on private posts could be leaked to other users.
  • James Golovich and WhiteCyberSec for each independently identifying a way for logged in user to execute any shortcode.
  • mascara7784 for identifying a XSS vulnerability in the application password screen.
  • Jorge Costa of the WordPress Core Team for identifying XSS vulnerability in the footnotes block.
  • s5s and raouf_maklouf for independently identifying a cache poisoning DoS vulnerability.

Credits

This release was led by Joe McGill , Aaron Jorbin and Jb Audras .

Changelog

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