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On October 17, 2022, WordPress 6.0.3 was released to the public.

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Summary

Security updates included in this release

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

Stored XSS via wp-mail.php (post by email) – Toshitsugu Yoneyama of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. via JPCERT
Open redirect in `wp_nonce_ays` – devrayn
Sender’s email address is exposed in wp-mail.php – Toshitsugu Yoneyama of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. via JPCERT
Media Library – Reflected XSS via SQLi – Ben Bidner from the WordPress security team and Marc Montpas from Automattic independently discovered this issue
CSRF in wp-trackback.php – Simon Scannell
Stored XSS via the Customizer – Alex Concha from the WordPress security team
Revert shared user instances introduced in 50790 – Alex Concha and Ben Bidner from the WordPress security team
Stored XSS in WordPress Core via Comment Editing – Third-party security audit and Alex Concha from the WordPress security team
Data exposure via the REST Terms/Tags Endpoint – Than Taintor
Content from multipart emails leaked – Thomas Kräftner
SQL Injection due to improper sanitization in `WP_Date_Query` – Michael Mazzolini
RSS Widget: Stored XSS issue – Third-party security audit
Stored XSS in the search block – Alex Concha of the WP Security team
Feature Image Block: XSS issue – Third-party security audit
RSS Block: Stored XSS issue – Third-party security audit
Fix widget block XSS – Third-party security audit

Credits

This release was led by Alex Concha, Peter Wilson, Jb Audras, and Sergey Biryukov. Thanks to Jonathan Desrosiers, Jorge Costa, Bernie Reiter and Carlos Bravo for their help on package updates.

WordPress 6.0.3 would not have been possible without the contributions of the following people. Their asynchronous coordination to deliver several fixes into a stable release is a testament to the power and capability of the WordPress community.

Alex Concha, Colin Stewart, Daniel Richards, David Baumwald, Dion Hulse, ehtis, Garth Mortensen, Jb Audras, John Blackbourn, John James Jacoby, Jonathan Desrosiers, Jorge Costa, Juliette Reinders Folmer, Linkon Miyan, martin.krcho, Matias Ventura, Mukesh Panchal, Paul Kevan, Peter Wilson, Robert Anderson Robin, Sergey Biryukov, Sumit Bagthariya, Teddy Patriarca, Timothy Jacobs, vortfu, and Česlav Przywara.

List of updated packages

@wordpress/block-directory: 3.4.15
@wordpress/block-library: 7.3.15
@wordpress/customize-widgets: 3.3.15
@wordpress/edit-post: 6.3.15
@wordpress/edit-site: 4.3.15
@wordpress/edit-widgets: 4.3.15
@wordpress/widgets: 2.4.11

List of Files Revised

src/wp-admin/about.php
src/wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php
src/wp-admin/includes/post.php
src/wp-includes/blocks/legacy-widget.php
src/wp-includes/blocks/navigation.php
src/wp-includes/blocks/post-featured-image.php
src/wp-includes/blocks/rss.php
src/wp-includes/blocks/search.php
src/wp-includes/blocks/widget-group.php
src/wp-includes/class-wp-date-query.php
src/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php
src/wp-includes/comment.php
src/wp-includes/customize/class-wp-customize-header-image-control.php
src/wp-includes/customize/class-wp-customize-site-icon-control.php
src/wp-includes/deprecated.php
src/wp-includes/functions.php
src/wp-includes/media-template.php
src/wp-includes/pluggable.php
src/wp-includes/post.php
src/wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-attachments-controller.php
src/wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-terms-controller.php
src/wp-includes/user.php
src/wp-includes/version.php
src/wp-includes/widgets.php
src/wp-mail.php
src/wp-trackback.php

Version 6.0.3

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