WordPress 3.1.2

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.

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

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!

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

- 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
  
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 😉

- 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?
  
Hamza Younas May 1, 2011 at 9:00 am #

Definitely you should need to replace all files

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