WordPress 3.1.2

By on April 26, 2011 in News

The new WordPress 3.1.2 is out. It is a security release addressed to a user vulnerability.

Detailed Summary

  • Fix a vulnerability that allowed Contributor-level users to improperly publish posts.
  • Fix user queries ordered by post count.
  • Fix multiple tag queries.
  • Prevent over-escaping of post titles when using Quick Edit for pages.

Revised Files

wp-includes/post-template.php
wp-includes/version.php
wp-includes/user.php
wp-includes/query.php
readme.html
wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php
wp-admin/includes/update-core.php
wp-admin/press-this.php

Should I upgrade?

You should always but it’s a low priority update if you don’t have any registered users in your site ;)

Remember to backup your data before updating!

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6 Responses to WordPress 3.1.2

  1. Sven April 29, 2011 at 7:36 pm #

    Hi Quicoto

    I have a question that I hope that you or some of your reader know the answer to:

    If I only upload the files that are updated, and run the “wp-admin/update.php”: is that enough? Will it work?

    Thanks

    Reply
    • quicoto April 29, 2011 at 10:48 pm #

      That’s a very good question.

      I think there is no data base update in this release so … Yes I guess you could just update the modified files.

      May I ask why can’t you run the auto updater from your admin panel?

      Regards

  2. Sven April 30, 2011 at 1:27 am #

    Thanks for the reply Quicoto.

    I have modified 9 WP files on my server, and it is much easier to just upload the updated files from WP. If I use the autoupdate it will overwrite all WP files.

    yeah, I know, I should not change WP files, but it was no way around ;)

    Reply
    • quicoto April 30, 2011 at 10:34 am #

      Definitely you shouldn’t edit core files.

      Are you sure you can not put this changes in your functions.php file?

  3. Hamza Younas May 1, 2011 at 9:00 am #

    Definitely you should need to replace all files

    Reply
  4. Sven May 1, 2011 at 10:57 am #

    @ quicoto

    There in no way to do this via functions.php or plugins.

    So fare: upgrading just the changed files have worked ;)

    @ Hamza Younas

    Why?

    This WP upgrade had only a few changed files, so the easiest for me was to just replace those files and hit update.php

    Reply

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