University Blog Service

The UBS service administrators were forced to take quick action to update the version of WordPress run on UBS, from 5.8.2 to 5.8.3, in order to address four security vulnerabilities fixed by the new version.

Along the way, we also updated several WordPress themes and Plugins. The updates were all put into place on Friday 01/07/2022, and they were:

WordPress 5.8.3

Plugin Updates

• New Royalslider
• WPMUDEV Updates
• Add To Any
• Google Analytics for WordPress
• Popup Anything on Click
• Really Simple SSL
• Yoast SEO

Theme Updates

• Genesis
• Twentyten
• Twentyeleven
• Twentytwelve
• Twentythirteen
• Twentyfourteen
• Twentyfifteen
• Twentysixteen
• Twentyseventeen

• Advanced Custom Fields: 5.11.3 -> 5.11.4
• SyntaxHighlighter Evolved 3.6.0 -> 3.6.1
• WP Accessibility: 1.7.10 -> 1.7.11
• WP CFM: 1.7.2 ->1.7.3
• Yoast SEO (wordpres-seo): 17.6 -> 17.7.1

Updated code is applied to the production service on Thursdays at 1p.

(from 1p – 1:30p)

• Lead story issue (see post below) has been fixed with this update.

• WordPress Update: 5.8.1 -> 5.8.2

Plugin updates included in this release:

• Add To Any: 1.7.48 -> 1.8.2
• Advanced Custom Fields 5.10.2 -> 5.11.3
• Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights: 8.1.0 -> 8.2.0
• LoginWP: 3.0.0.4 -> 3.0.0.6
• Really Simple SSL: 5.1.2 -> 5.2.0
• Yoast SEO (wordpress-seo): 17.4 -> 17.6
• WP Accessibility (wp-accessibility): 1.7.9 -> 1.7.10
• wp help: 1.7.0 -> 1.7.1
• WPMU DEV Dashboard (wpmudev-updates) 4.11.5 -> 4.11.6
• WP Video Lightbox (wp-video-lightbox): 19.3 -> 19.4