{"id":3546,"date":"2015-04-09T21:09:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T21:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2015\/04\/09\/security-alert-wp-rest-api-plugin-for-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T22:55:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:55:44","slug":"security-alert-wp-rest-api-plugin-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/security-alert-wp-rest-api-plugin-for-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Alert &#8211; WP Rest API plugin for WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table table-striped table-bordered\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<tr>\n<th>Issue:<\/th>\n<td>WP REST API plugin has released a critical security update (version 1.2.1). They are urging everyone to update to this latest version.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Status:<\/th>\n<td>Update has been released.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Who is impacted?<\/th>\n<td>Websites running the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/json-rest-api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP REST API Plugin<\/a> for WordPress.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Why was this update released?<\/h2>\n<p>WP REST API plugin version 1.2.1 was released to address &#8220;<em>a serious information disclosure vulnerability, which allowed for unpublished content and post revisions to be retrieved via the REST API.<\/em>&#8221; Learn more in the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2015\/04\/09\/wp-rest-api-critical-security-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WordPress.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What should I do?<\/h2>\n<p>The REST API Team is urgently advising all users of their plugin to <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/plugins\/update-wordpress-plugin\/\">update the WordPress plugin<\/a> to the latest version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue: WP REST API plugin has released a critical security update (version 1.2.1). 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