User Role Editor Pro version 4.18.4

User Role Editor Pro version 4.18.4 was published at May 28th, 2015.

The list of changes

  • Bug fix: Edit posts/pages restrictions add-on: Now user can not edit prohibited post/page manually inserting its ID to the edit URL.
  • Admin menu access add-on: ‘Customize’ menu item is available now for non-English WordPress default languages too.

User Role Editor Pro version 4.18.3

User Role Editor Pro version 4.18.3 was published at May 6th, 2015.
The list of changes:

  • Bug fix for “Admin menu access” add-on: direct access to the wp-admin/customize.php link (Appearance->Customize menu item) was not blocked properly.
    As additional security measure “Welcome” panel is removed for the role with access restriction to the “Customize” admin menu item.

User Role Editor Pro 4.18.2

User Role Editor Pro version 4.18.2 was published at April 30th, 2015.
The list of changes:

  • Calls to the functions add_query_arg(), remove_query_arg() are escaped with esc_url_raw() to exclude potential XSS vulnerabilities, as suggested at
    https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_query_arg/

User Role Editor Pro 4.18.1

User Role Editor Pro version 4.18.1 was published at February 24th, 2015.
The list of changes:

  • Fixed PHP fatal error for “Reset” roles operation.
  • Fixed current user capability checking before URE Options page open. Multisite: URE’s options page is prohibited by ‘manage_network_users’ capability instead of ‘ure_manage_options’ in case single site administrators does not have permission to use URE.
  • 3 missed phrases were added to the translations files.

Temporary problems with plugin download and automatic updates

Did you meet problems with plugin User Role Editor installation package download or automatic update recent 3 days?
You did not? Fortune loves you :).

If to be serious, there are some problems really. Bad news – they are related to the technical issue introduced by role-editor.com hosting platform – Google Application Engine (GAE). Good news – GAE team works on it. I hope they will fix it quickly. While they search a decision, I applied recommended workaround to the site code. Let’s see, if this will help us to overcome this trouble.

For more information about Google Cloud Storage file access bug introduced at GAE read this post.