Yesterday evening September 8, 2021, WordPress 5.8.1 was released to the public. The updated version addresses one theme security and solves 60 problems. For more see it note.
According to WordPress:
Dawaffe, a member of the WordPress Security Team, helped fix a security flaw in the REST API.
Securitum's Michał Bentkowski reported an XSS security vulnerability in his block editor.
Lodash library was updated to version 4.17.21 for upstream security fixes.
Η team WordPress security thanks the following for their help:
Evan Ricafort for reporting an XSS vulnerability to the block editor of version 5.8.
and Steve Henty for reporting a privilege escalation issue again to the block editor.
You can download the update from official site, or upgrade your page from the admin panel Dashboard - Updates
