WordPress is free and open source software for creating websites, blogs or applications. It is written in PHP and MySQL. It is used as a System managementcontent management system (CMS) and has a lot of features, including an architecture for additional functions, and a system of templates.
First released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg as parchange of b2 / cafelog. As of August 2020, the version 5.5 has been downloaded more than 21,2 million times.
The developers of the web application released WordPress 5.5.2 as a security update and maintenance on October 29, 2020.
This bug fixes 14 bugs, which are described in release notes. This update fixes a critical vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to take control of a page via a denial of service attack. service attack).
Therefore, you should update as soon as possible if your web application has not already been updated automatically.
On October 30, 2020, WordPress 5.5.3 was released as an update to bug fix.
