Arch Linux: 201601-2 Medium: Wordpress Cross-Site Scripting Threat

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201601-2
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Severity: Medium
Date    : 2016-01-09
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-1564
Package : wordpress
Type    : cross-side scripting
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
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The package wordpress before version 4.4.1-1 is vulnerable to cross-side
scripting.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 4.4.1-1.

# pacman -Syu "wordpress>=4.4.1-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 4.4.1.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been discovered that could
allow a site to be compromised.

Impact
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A remote attacker is able to inject unescaped HTML and javascript
leading to cross-side scripting that could result in a site to be
compromised.

References
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1564
https://wordpress.org/news/2016/01/wordpress-4-4-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/36185