{"id":3741,"date":"2016-01-27T19:06:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T00:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2016\/01\/27\/whmcs-security-update-1-27-2016\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T22:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:52:21","slug":"whmcs-security-update-1-27-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/whm\/whmcs-security-update-1-27-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"WHMCS Security Update &#8211; 01\/27\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently WHMCS released a security update that has been marked as Trivial to Important on their <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.whmcs.com\/Security_Levels\">security level scale<\/a>. This should be addressed immediately if you are running a version older than 6.2.1. 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