[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #50118: Site Health Issue - a little less dramatic sounding?

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#50118: Site Health Issue - a little less dramatic sounding?
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 Reporter:  karinclimber  |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Site Health   |     Version:  5.2
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:  administration
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Changes (by Clorith):

 * version:   => 5.2


Comment:

 Looking at the definitions provided by @eatingrules, I still think
 "Critical" applies, as having an outdated plugin or theme with a zero-day
 in it (to use a previous examples from this ticket) would have the
 potential of becoming disastrous.

 If we had a way of guaranteeing some structure on versioning for plugins
 and themes, then we could change the classification depending on numbers,
 but unfortunately we don't at this time, which unfortunately means that
 taking a worst case look at things is the best practice right now.

 I'm aware that this just reiterates on points already made, but so far
 nothing has truly changed that perception. Could some things also be
 considered less than critical, yet still above recommendations, possibly,
 but then we'd be introducing more complexity here.

 I also suspect that introduction of auto-updates for plugins and themes
 which came with WordPress 5.5 will reduce the impact of these specific
 checks in the site Site Health status overall, since users are less likely
 to end up having reports about them.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/50118#comment:11>
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