{"id":19018128,"date":"2026-09-11T21:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/?post_type=topic&#038;p=19018128"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:12:04","slug":"security-email-alerts","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/security-email-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Email Alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can I subscribe to get critical security (only!) email alerts from WordPress?<\/p>\n<p>A couple months ago, wordpress core <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2026\/07\/wordpress-7-0-2-release\/\">fixed<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/cve-2026-63030\">high-severity (9.8\/10) security bug<\/a> which allows an unauthenticated website visitor to perform SQL Injections and  achieve arbitrary Remote Code Executions.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t learn about this release the day that it was fixed.<\/p>\n<p>How can I get email notifications whenever a new WordPress release is published which patches critical security vulnerabilities?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNote: I do *not* want to signup for a general newsletter nor get an email every time a new version of WordPress is released. <strong>I only want to recieve emails when a <em>critical security<\/em> bug is patched in a new release.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any answers that include me getting a single email that&#8217;s not about a new release of wordpress with patches of critical security vulnerabilities is *not* a valid answer to this question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19018128","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19018128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19018128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19018132,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19018128\/revisions\/19018132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19018128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}