WordPress is free and open source code software για την δημιουργία ιστοσελίδων, blog ή εφαρμογών. Είναι γραμμένο σε PHP και MySQL. Χρησιμοποιείται σαν Σύστημα managementcontent management system (CMS) and has a lot of features, including an architecture for additional functions, and a system of templates.
It was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg as a variation 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 and maintenance update on October 29, 2020.
14 were fixed in this version errorthe, 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 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.