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On Nov 30, 2016, my Wordfence plugin for Wordpress has issued an alert for a security flaw with Firefox. https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/11/emergency-bulletin-firefox-0-day-wild/

"We’re publishing this as an emergency bulletin for our customers and the larger web community. A few hours ago a zero day vulnerability emerged in the Tor browser bundle and the Firefox web browser. Currently it exploits Windows systems with a high success rate and affects Firefox versions 41 to 50 and the current version of the Tor Browser Bundle which contains Firefox 45  ESR."

On Nov 30, 2016, my Wordfence plugin for Wordpress has issued an alert for a security flaw with Firefox. https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/11/emergency-bulletin-firefox-0-day-wild/ "We’re publishing this as an emergency bulletin for our customers and the larger web community. A few hours ago a zero day vulnerability emerged in the Tor browser bundle and the Firefox web browser. Currently it exploits Windows systems with a high success rate and affects Firefox versions 41 to 50 and the current version of the Tor Browser Bundle which contains Firefox 45  ESR."

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hi joyanne1960, this is correct - an update to firefox 50.0.2 was already released to fix this vulnerability. you can go to the firefox menu ≡ > (?) help > about firefox panel, to trigger it...

Update Firefox to the latest release

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hi joyanne1960, this is correct - an update to firefox 50.0.2 was already released to fix this vulnerability. you can go to the firefox menu ≡ > (?) help > about firefox panel, to trigger it...

Update Firefox to the latest release

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Thanks! Just updated. :)