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HistoryOct 29, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

wordpress - security update

2015-10-2900:00:00
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging
tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

  • CVE-2015-2213
    SQL Injection allowed a remote attacker to compromise the site.
  • 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-2015-5714
    A cross-site scripting vulnerability when processing shortcode tags.
  • CVE-2015-5715
    A vulnerability has been discovered, allowing users without proper
    permissions to publish private posts and make them sticky.
  • CVE-2015-5731
    An attacker could lock a post that was being edited.
  • CVE-2015-5732
    Cross-site scripting in a widget title allows an attacker to steal
    sensitive information.
  • CVE-2015-5734
    Fix some broken links in the legacy theme preview.
  • CVE-2015-7989
    A cross-site scripting vulnerability in user list tables.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u8.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u5 or earlier in DSA-3332-1 and DSA-3375-1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 4.3.1+dfsg-1 or earlier versions.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.3.1+dfsg-1 or earlier versions.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.