Update wp-coding-standards/wpcs requirement from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1

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Updates the requirements on wp-coding-standards/wpcs to permit the latest version.

Release notes

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3.4.1 - 2026-07-27

This is a security release and all users are advised to update their WordPressCS install as soon as possible.

Changed

• The minimum required PHPCSUtils version to 1.2.3 (was 1.2.2). #2770
• The minimum required PHPCSExtra version to 1.5.1 (was 1.5.0). #2770
• Various housekeeping, including documentation improvements.

Fixed

• SECURITY FIX: Running the WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters sniff over untrusted PHP code, for example, in a CI pipeline that lints pull requests, or on a developer machine reviewing third-party code, could lead to arbitrary command execution on the scanning host. #2771 This affects users of the WordPress and WordPress-Extra rulesets. The WordPress-Core ruleset and the WordPress-Docs ruleset are not affected. For more details, see the security advisory Thanks to @​FORIMOC for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability.

Changelog

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[3.4.1] - 2026-07-27

This is a security release and all users are advised to update their WordPressCS install as soon as possible.

Changed

• The minimum required PHPCSUtils version to 1.2.3 (was 1.2.2). #2770
• The minimum required PHPCSExtra version to 1.5.1 (was 1.5.0). #2770
• Various housekeeping, including documentation improvements.

Fixed

• SECURITY FIX: Running the WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters sniff over untrusted PHP code, for example, in a CI pipeline that lints pull requests, or on a developer machine reviewing third-party code, could lead to arbitrary command execution on the scanning host. #2771 This affects users of the WordPress and WordPress-Extra rulesets. The WordPress-Core ruleset and the WordPress-Docs ruleset are not affected. For more details, see the security advisory. Thanks to [@​FORIMOC] for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability.

#2770: WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards#2770 #2771: WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards#2771

[3.4.0] - 2026-07-16

We're happy to welcome [@​rodrigoprimo] as co-maintainer of WordPressCS as of this release.

Added

• WordPress.Arrays.ArrayDeclarationSpacing: new allow_single_item_single_line_explicit_key_arrays property to replace the, now deprecated, allow_single_item_single_line_associative_arrays property. #2696
• End-user documentation to the following existing sniffs: WordPress.Arrays.ArrayDeclarationSpacing (props [@​RafaelFunchal], [@​mattgaldino] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2489, #2593, #2682), WordPress.CodeAnalysis.AssignmentInTernaryCondition (props [@​Nic-Sevic] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2488, #2678), WordPress.DB.RestrictedClasses (props [@​paulgibbs] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2455, #2689), WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery (props [@​jaymcp] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2458, #2697), WordPress.DB.RestrictedFunctions (props [@​paulgibbs] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2453, #2676), WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery (props [@​petitphp] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2464, #2699), WordPress.PHP.DevelopmentFunctions (props [@​gogdzl] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2490, #2690), WordPress.PHP.NoSilencedErrors (props [@​gogdzl] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2495, #2694), WordPress.PHP.PregQuoteDelimiter (props [@​tikifez] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2487, #2677), WordPress.PHP.RestrictedPHPFunctions (props [@​gogdzl] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2491, #2693), WordPress.Security.PluginMenuSlug (props [@​jasonkenison], #2592), WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions (props [@​pamprn09], [@​bhubbard] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2496, #2588, #2687), WordPress.WP.DiscouragedConstants (props [@​RafaelFunchal], [@​paulopmt1] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2493, #2589, #2680), WordPress.WP.GlobalVariablesOverride (props [@​paulopmt1] and [@​rodrigoprimo], #2586, #2679). This documentation can be exposed via the PHP_CodeSniffer --generator=... command-line argument.

Changed

• The minimum required PHP_CodeSniffer version to 3.13.5 (was 3.13.4). #2761
• The minimum required PHPCSUtils version to 1.2.2 (was 1.1.0). #2761
• The default value for minimum_wp_version, as used by a number of sniffs detecting usage of deprecated WP features, has been updated to 6.7. #2757
• WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals has been updated to recognize pluggable functions introduced in WP up to WP 7.0.0. #2747
• WordPress.WP.ClassNameCase has been updated to recognize classes introduced in WP up to WP 7.0.0. #2747
• WordPress.WP.DeprecatedFunctions now detects functions deprecated in WordPress up to WP 7.0.0. #2747
• The ConstantsHelper::is_use_of_global_constant() method will no longer flag a constant alias created via an import use statement as it were the use of a global constant. #2579
• The ConstantsHelper::is_in_function_call() method will now act fully case-agnostic for the function names being checked. #2706 Previously, the $valid_functions parameter would need to be passed with the function names as keys in lowercase.
• WordPress.PHP.NoSilencedErrors: error silencing is no longer accepted for the parse_url() function. #2701
• Improved the wording of the error message for WordPress.Arrays.ArrayDeclarationSpacing.AssociativeArrayFound. #2688
• Improved the wording of the error message for WordPress.PHP.RestrictedPHPFunctions. #2702
• Various housekeeping, including documentation and test improvements. Includes a contribution by [@​dd32].

Deprecated

• WordPress.Arrays.ArrayDeclarationSpacing: the allow_single_item_single_line_associative_arrays property has been deprecated in favor of the new allow_single_item_single_line_explicit_key_arrays property. #2696 This is a name change only. The functionality of these properties is the same.

Fixed

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Commits

• ec2ff94 Merge pull request #2773 from WordPress/develop
• b558639 Merge pull request #2772 from WordPress/feature/changelog-3.4.1
• 1696dc8 Changelog for the release of WordPressCS 3.4.1
• a29048d Merge pull request #2771 from WordPress/security/enqueuedresourceparams-fix-i...
• 7262444 WP/EnqueuedResourceParameters: remove eval() from is_falsy()
• 54719c0 Merge pull request #2770 from WordPress/feature/composer-update-versions
• 267d84e Composer: update minimum version PHPCSUtils + PHPCSExtra
• e8064a6 Add SECURITY.md file (#2766)
• 7ac8973 Merge pull request #2768 from WordPress/dependabot/github_actions/action-runn...
• 9466b4b GH Actions: Bump actions/checkout in the action-runners group
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