This is a super good news for millions of WordPress user who relies on W3 Total Cache. We posted yesterday about the high-risk vulnerability and also a quick fix. Now the main developer, Frederick Townes released a massive update that not only fixes the security issue but brings lots of new features. Keep reading. This update came as a surprise. Frederick Townes did not update the plugin since 2014 actually. And never responded properly about why he abandoned the popular plugin. And the Vulnerability caused a major panic among people. We ourself also use this plugin on this site, after some research, and lots of testing we adopted a community fork, and released the tutorial.
Now as the official version is released, we will share details about it.
Update Details:
Here is the Changelog –
Fixed XSS vulnerability
Fixed issues with dismissing overlays
Fixed handling of tilde in URLs
Fixed issue with HTTP compression header when using mfunc calls
Fixed cache ID issue with minify in network mode
Fixed rare issue of caching empty document when some PHP errors occur in themes or plugins
Fixed caching of query strings
Added support for APCu Opcode Cache
Added support for Redis
Added support
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13467/w3-total-cache-gets-official-update-from-frederick-townes
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/w3-total-cache-gets-official-update-from-frederick-townes/
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