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Hello WA family, You've probably all heard about the discovery of Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities with WordPress. Don't panic, a patch was just released. Your sites may have been pushed the update already. Go to Dashboard > Updates and validate that you have WordPress 4.2.1, and if you don't just press the Update Now button to get the latest. You can read more about the update at the link below. https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/

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