On September 22, 2026, WordPress 5.3.25 was released to the public.
Installation/Update Information
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Summary
Security updates
This release features one security fix. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately.
The security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities, and allowing them to be fixed in this release:
- An unauthenticated path traversal issue in page-template resolution leading to conditional remote code execution reported by Robert Ressl
Change log
List of files revised
/wp-includes/template.php
List of packages revised
No package was revised.