[SECURITY] [DSA 3328-1] wordpress security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-3328-1 [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
August 04, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : wordpress
CVE ID : CVE-2015-3429 CVE-2015-5622 CVE-2015-5623
Debian Bug : 784603

Several vulnerabilities have been found in Wordpress, the popular
blogging engine.

CVE-2015-3429

The file example.html in the Genericicons icon font package and
twentyfifteen Wordpress theme allowed for cross site scripting.

CVE-2015-5622

The robustness of the shortcodes HTML tags filter has been
improved. The parsing is a bit more strict, which may affect
your installation.

CVE-2015-5623

A cross site scripting vulnerability allowed users with the
Contributor or Author role to elevate their privileges.

The oldstable distribution (wheezy) is only affected by CVE-2015-5622.
This less critical issue will be fixed at a later time.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.2.3+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

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