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The momentum from December’s WordPress 5.0 release was maintained through January with some big announcements and significant updates. Read on to find out what happened in the WordPress project last month. WordPress Leadership Grows In a milestone announcement this month, WordPress project lead, Matt Mullenweg (@matt), named two individuals who are coming on board to […]

WordPress 5.1 Beta 3 is now available! This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. There are two ways to test the WordPress 5.1 beta: try the WordPress Beta Testerplugin (you’ll want to select the “bleeding […]

• Project: Joomla!
• SubProject: CMS
• Impact: Low
• Severity: Low
• Versions: 2.5.0 through 3.9.1
• Exploit type: XSS
• Reported Date: 2018-December-05
• Fixed Date: 2019-January-15
• CVE Number: CVE-2019-6262

Description

Inadequate checks at the Global Configuration helpurl settings allowed a stored XSS.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 2.5.0 through 3.9.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.9.2

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

• Project: Joomla!
• SubProject: CMS
• Impact: Low
• Severity: Low
• Versions: 2.5.0 through 3.9.1
• Exploit type: XSS
• Reported Date: 2018-December-04
• Fixed Date: 2019-January-15
• CVE Number: CVE-2019-6261

Description

Inadequate escaping in com_contact leads to a stored XSS vulnerability

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 2.5.0 through 3.9.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.9.2

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

• Project: Joomla!
• SubProject: CMS
• Impact: Low
• Severity: Low
• Versions: 2.5.0 through 3.9.1
• Exploit type: XSS
• Reported Date: 2018-December-01
• Fixed Date: 2019-January-15
• CVE Number: CVE-2019-6264

Description

Inadequate escaping in mod_banners leads to a stored XSS vulnerability.

Affected Installs

Joomla! CMS versions 2.5.0 through 3.9.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.9.2

Contact

The JSST at the Joomla! Security Centre.

WordPress 5.0.3 is now available! 5.0.3 is a maintenance release that includes 37 bug fixes and 7 performance updates. The focus of this release was fine-tuning the new block editor, and fixing any major bugs or regressions. Here are a few of the highlights: 15 block editor related bug fixes and improvements have been added […]

New features, a big event, and important announcements marked December as a milestone month for the WordPress community. Release of WordPress 5.0 On December 6 WordPress 5.0 was released. This release includes the much anticipated new block editor as the default editing experience. While some users have chosen to continue using the Classic Editor on […]

As we countdown to 2019, we’ll be raising a glass (or two) to all our incredible volunteers who have made the leaps and bounds of 2018 possible.

One of the useful features that we offer with cPanel & WHM is the ability to run your own DNS server . The nameserver features we have provided in the past have included PowerDNS, MyDNS, BIND, and NSD. With the release of cPanel & WHM Version 78, we are deprecating NSD and MyDNS. New installations of cPanel & WHM version 78 will not allow you to select the NSD or MyDNS nameservers. Our long-term …

It’s very common these days for hosting providers to offer cloud-based hosting solutions to their customers. In configuring these servers ourselves, and in interactions with our customers’ servers, an issue has come to our attention where the dhclient script does not preserve locally-configured hostnames. This means that hostnames configured on the command line might not remain through a reboot. We wante to provide a workaround solution for this while continuing to investigate a more permanent, long-term solution. What …

WordPress 5.0.1 is now available. This is a security release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. Plugin authors are encouraged to read the 5.0.1 developer notes for information on backwards-compatibility. WordPress versions 5.0 and earlier are affected by the following bugs, which are fixed in version […]

The third release candidate for WordPress 5.0 is now available! WordPress 5.0 will be released on December 6, 2018. This is a big release and needs your help—if you haven’t tried 5.0 yet, now is the time! To test WordPress 5.0, you can use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin or you can download the release candidate here (zip). For details about […]

The second release candidate for WordPress 5.0 is now available! This is an important milestone, as we near the release of WordPress 5.0. The WordPress 5.0 release date has shifted from the 27th to give more time for the RC to be fully tested. A final release date will be announced soon, based on feedback from […]

The first release candidate for WordPress 5.0 is now available! This is an important milestone, as we near the release of WordPress 5.0. The WordPress 5.0 release date has shifted from the 27th to give more time for the RC to be fully tested. A final release date will be announced soon, based on feedback on […]

cPanel’s support teams thrive on customer feedback. We work hard to ensure that we are meeting our customer’s expectations and providing them with the best experience. That begins with us trying to understand our customer’s reactions to the support that we provide. The best means of doing that is via our feedback system. We’ve decided to make a few changes to how customers leave feedback for our Technical Support and Customer Service teams. cPanel …