WordPress 4.8 lifecycle
Current status
Lifecycle information for WordPress 4.8 is incomplete in the available first-party sources.
Official lifecycle source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
- Support phase
- unknown
- End of life
- Not officially published
- Latest release
- 4.8.30
- Released
- —
At a glance
- Version line
- 4.8
- Initial release
- —
- Lifecycle phase
- unknown
- Latest stable
- 4.8.30
- Latest release date
- —
- EOL
- Not officially published
- Risk
- medium
- Releases tracked
- 30
Lifecycle timeline
Phases from published LifecyclePeriod records. Missing phases are not inferred.
Lifecycle information is incomplete in the available first-party sources.
Lifecycle information for WordPress 4.8 is incomplete in the available first-party sources.
Latest release
Previous releases
4.8.29
—
4.8.28
—
4.8.27
—
Release history
30 concrete releases tracked for this line.
Release activity
- Total releases
- 30
- Last 30 days
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
Should I use this version?
Lifecycle status unclear
CompatHub does not currently have a clear support status for WordPress 4.8.
Upgrade options
Newer supported WordPress version lines from CompatHub lifecycle data. Compatibility and security context use existing evidence only.
You are on WordPress 4.8
UNKNOWN
Supported upgrade options
- WordPress 7.0Upgrade planner →Supported· 3 major versions newer
Version comparison
Compact comparison against the nearest relevant release lines.
Sources
Where this information comes from.
Lifecycle sources
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilitiesfirst party
Official source: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
Verification time not recorded
- NVD (NIST)first party
Official source: https://nvd.nist.gov
Verification time not recorded
- OSV.devfirst party
Official source: https://osv.dev
Verification time not recorded
Release sources
- WordPress stable-check APIfirst party · high confidence
Official source: https://api.wordpress.org/core/stable-check/1.0/
Last verified 31 Aug 2026
- WordPress release announcements RSSfirst party
Official source: https://wordpress.org/news/category/releases/feed/
Verification time not recorded
Data coverage
Last checked = last successful upstream check. Latest source update = when upstream content last changed.
- Releases tracked
- 30
- Lifecycle periods
- 0
- EOL
- Not officially published
- Provenance records
- 1
- Data last checked
- 31 Aug 2026
- Latest source update
- 31 Aug 2026
Lifecycle information is incomplete in the available first-party sources.
EOL: Not officially published