# Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress 5.2.3 Security Release
**Date:** 2019-09-13
**Author:** Dan Maby
**Categories:** Accessibility & Standards, Gutenberg, WordPress
> Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. In this week’s News Drop we talk with Mikey Veenstra, a threat analyst at Wordfence, about cross site scripting attacks and the release of WordPress …
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Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you.

In this week’s News Drop we talk with [Mikey Veenstra](http:// https://twitter.com/heyitsmikeyv), a threat analyst at [Wordfence](http:// https://twitter.com/wordfence), about cross site scripting attacks and the release of WordPress version 5.2.3. For more details about threats discussed on this episode, check out [Wordfence’s full breakdown](https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/09/the-wordpress-5-2-3-security-release-unpacked/).

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