The latest version of Better Search Replace has two changelog entries that are security related, one though appears unrelated to a vulnerability, but the other, “Security: Pass template filenames through sanitize_file_name()”, relates to fixing a cross-site request forgery (CSRF)/local file inclusion (LFI) vulnerability.

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