WordPress 5.4 – Upcoming Features & Improvements with Screenshots

With over 41 million downloads and counting, WordPress 5.3 “Kirk” was the last major release of the year 2019. While 5.3 was primarily focused on expanding and refining the block editor with more intuitive interactions and enhanced accessibility, work on version 5.4 has already been started to improve the CMS further.

As a result of the active development, WordPress 5.4 Beta 2 was recently released with a host of new features and improvements that are available for testing. Slated for release on March 31, 2020, WordPress 5.4 will be the first major release of 2020 with the primary goal of facilitating users to edit the full-site using the block editor.

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Security Alert: Plugin Flaw Puts Over 200K WordPress Sites At Risk

If you run a WordPress-powered site, then you must get to know it!

A high-severity cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-8417, has been discovered in a popular WordPress plugin, potentially opening up over 200K websites to complete takeover, information disclosure, and more.

The plugin in question is Code Snippets, which offers users an intuitive graphical user interface (similar to the Plugins menu) to add, run and manage PHP code snippets to their WordPress sites in order to customize or extend the functionality of the website, all without diving into the theme’s underlying code.

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