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WordPress.org blog: WordPress 7.1.2 Release

This security release features a fix for a critical severity security vulnerability. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 7.1.2 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update Now”. If you have sites that support automatic background updates, the update process will begin automatically. Security update included in this release The security team would like to thank Robert Ressl for responsibly disclosing that an unauthenticated attacker can, under certain conditions, make page template resolution include a chosen readable local PHP file outside the active theme directories. If relevant pre-conditions for both the server environment and the active theme are met, this can lead to remote code execution (RCE). Thank you to these WordPress contributors This release was led by John Blackbourn. WordPress 7.1.2 would not have been possible without the contributions of the following people: Aaron Jorbin, Aki Hamano, Alex Concha, Ehtisham Siddiqui, fiocavallari, Jb Audras, Jeffrey Paul, Jeremy Felt, Joe McGill, John Blackbourn, Jon Surrell, Lance Willett, Manuel Camargo, marcs0h, martin.krcho, Mukesh Panchal, Olga Gleckler, Pascal Birchler, Peter Wilson, Rajin Sharwar, Ressl, Rudy Faile, Sergey Biryukov, Shail Mehta, Stephanie Walters, and vortfu. CVE and GHSA references Further details can be found in the advisory: CVE-2026-87902 / GHSA-7hp8-65ch-5whp. Backports As a courtesy, the security fix was backported to all branches eligible to receive security fixes (currently through 4.7). As a reminder, only the most recent version of WordPress is actively supported.

bbPress: bbPress 2.6.18 is out!

bbPress 2.6.18 is a maintenance release focused on forum imports and first-login password upgrades. Imported users can now upgrade their passwords on first login for more legacy forum formats, including cases where the original forum database is no longer available. This release also corrects PHPWind topic statuses, reply counts, and forum dates during import, and restores Super Moderator edit links on front-end bbPress user screens. bbPress 2.6.18 requires PHP 7.2 or newer and WordPress 6.0 or newer. Sites running an older PHP version should update PHP before upgrading bbPress. Read the 2.6.18 upgrade notes for importer compatibility details. These changes are also in the 2.7 development branch. The Plugin Directory’s development trunk remains at 2.7.0-alpha-3. Download bbPress 2.6.18 from WordPress.org, or update from your WordPress dashboard.

WordPress.org blog: WordPress Takes Its Turn Leading the Open Website Alliance

I’m happy to announce that I am now serving as president of the Open Website Alliance (OWA), representing the WordPress Foundation. The Alliance brings together the community organizations behind Drupal, Joomla!, TYPO3, and WordPress to advocate for open source and share practices that benefit their projects. I represent the WordPress Foundation in this role, which rotates among the Alliance’s members. WordPress announced its participation in the Alliance in 2024, building on our work with Drupal, Joomla!, and TYPO3 to respond to the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act. While many open source projects focus on underlying digital infrastructure, our content management systems power the websites where businesses reach customers and sell products and services. We asked policymakers to account for that economic role when setting security requirements, while respecting how communities of developers, translators, educators, and other contributors build and maintain the software. We share a belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, change, and share the tools they rely on. This commitment to openness builds on efforts such WordPress’s recent signing of the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter. Our mission to democratize publishing means giving anyone a voice and welcoming everyone to contribute. Working with other communities puts those values into practice beyond WordPress, supporting the freedoms that make participation possible. I invite you to read the Open Website Alliance charter to learn more about the commitments its members share and how the Alliance works.

OpenStation Blog: Drag, Drop, Preview: How a Post Gets Written in OpenStation

I started writing a post (this post!). Then, as usually happens, I needed a picture, so I dragged one straight from my desktop into OpenStation. No downloading, no extra tabs needed, no extra spaces in the editor, no more “in which tab was the image!?”… I just dragged it from my desktop… Done! And then I thought the post was already descriptive enough to tell how much we enjoy creating content in OpenStation… But I missed the preview. I wanted to see what the post would look like and edit it in real time. And it happened, I just had to click on the eye icon in the title bar of this editor. This is probably my favourite kind of productivity, the boring stuff becoming pleasantly simple… And yes, this whole post was written while recording the video But I thought that a quick sanity review from one of my bots would make the post nicer for SEO. So I just saved the draft, and gave it to my agent And the best part, is that EVERYTHING that my Agent did, is traceable. Switch to OpenStation

OpenStation Blog: A better way to use WordPress

I have been using WordPress for a long time, and I still love it. But wp-admin has basically worked in the same way for years. OpenStation is our attempt to change that. It’s a simple idea: instead of moving from one admin page to another, you have a desktop where you can open different parts of WordPress at the same time. Your WordPress. Your workspace. You can open your posts, pages, media, plugins, WooCommerce or any OpenStation app in different windows. You can move them around, minimize them or put two things next to each other. It may sound like a small difference, but once you start using WordPress this way, it changes a lot. Real-time previews You can also see your changes while you are working on them. No need to constantly jump between wp-admin and the frontend just to check how something looks. Apps inside WordPress This is one of my favorite parts. We are building apps like AllTerrain Forms, Photo Editor (And more!) specifically for OpenStation. They are still WordPress plugins, but they feel much more like normal desktop apps. WordPress on your phone We also wanted OpenStation to work properly on mobile. You can install it as a PWA and use WordPress from your phone almost like any other app. Performance Is Fast. Really fast. OpenStation is not only about changing how WordPress looks. We have put a lot of work into making it fast. In many cases, opening and moving between WordPress screens is faster than using them directly from wp-admin. We are also working on caching and preloading parts of WordPress before you need them. The goal is very simple: you click something and it opens FAST. And it is still WordPress This is important. We are not trying to replace WordPress or build another platform on top of it. Your plugins are still your plugins. WooCommerce is still WooCommerce. Your content stays in WordPress. OpenStation just gives you a different way to use all of it. And, of course, it is open source. Thank you And finally, a big thank you to everyone in the WordPress community who has tried OpenStation, shared feedback, reported bugs or simply told others about it. And especially to all the contributors who are helping us build it. OpenStation would not be what it is today without you. There is still a lot we want to do, and seeing people contributing, experimenting and building things with OpenStation is probably the best part of the whole project. Thank you

Open Channels FM: OCN Week in Review #4

This week Robert Jacobi shared about the evolving landscape of open source and tech. Highlights include AI’s growing role in security, WordPress and Apache fortifying their processes, LibreOffice redefining productivity with privacy, LoopConf rethinking event funding, and Switzerland’s bold move toward digital sovereignty. Explore how accountability, control, and sustainability are shaping the future of open technology.