Το WordPress είναι ελεύθερο και ανοικτού κώδικα λογισμικό για την δημιουργία ιστοσελίδων, blog ή εφαρμογών. Είναι γραμμένο σε PHP και MySQL. Χρησιμοποιείται σαν Σύστημα διαχείρισης περιεχομένου (CMS) και έχει πάρα πολλές δυνατότητες, συμπεριλαμβανομένων μιας αρχιτεκτονικής για πρόσθετες functions, and a system of standards.
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.
This bug fixes 14 bugs, which are described in release notes. This update fixes a critical vulnerability which allows a remote attacker to take control of a page via a denial-of-service attack services (denial of 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.