{"id":6562,"date":"2016-12-27T19:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T02:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=6562"},"modified":"2016-12-27T19:22:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T02:22:44","slug":"updating-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=6562","title":{"rendered":"Updating WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On slashdot today there was news of a vulnerability to a popular library called phpmailer. \u00a0I know I have it on my systems due to wordpress being installed. \u00a0I think the issue is that there is now checking for an escape character which could lead to remote code execution.<\/p>\n<p>I looked it up more and I don&#8217;t think I am affected, with that said I went and looked around my websites, and lo and behold one of my sites had an OLD version of wordpress.<\/p>\n<p>I went through several iterations of updates to get it up to date. \u00a0Found out later there is an automated way to update it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On slashdot today there was news of a vulnerability to a popular library called phpmailer. \u00a0I know I have it on my systems due to wordpress being installed. \u00a0I think the issue is that there is now checking for an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=6562\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6563,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions\/6563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}