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Back to Episodes#260 WP-Tonic Friday Round-Table Show 19th of Jan 2018
Description
This week, Adam Fout, John Locke, and Adam Preiser joined host Jonathan Denwood for Episode 260. This week, the roundtable covered three news stories relevant to the WordPress and online community.
Story 1 WordPress 4.9.2 was released and patches an XSS Vulnerability
https://wptavern.com/wordpress-4-9-2-patches-xss-vulnerability
This was an important update and brought up the overall importance of keeping your sites updated to keep them as secure as possible.
The topic also moved into recent security news about people buying plugins and themes and using them to spread malware. Those managing the WordPress repository remove plugins that aren’t updated.
Adam Preiser addressed Tide, a tool to run automated tests against plugins in the WordPress directory. This was announced at the recent State of the Word address. He wondered if this will also be expanded to provide some sec