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Debian DSA-2718-1 Moderate: Wordpress Multiple Security Issues

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2013
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Enhance WordPress to address various vulnerabilities such as SSRF and privilege escalation. Confirm compatibility before proceeding with the upgrade!
Several vulnerabilities were identified in Wordpress, a web blogging tool

Summary

Several vulnerabilities were identified in Wordpress, a web blogging
tool. As the CVEs were allocated from releases announcements and
specific fixes are usually not identified, it has been decided to
upgrade the Wordpress package to the latest upstream version instead of
backporting the patches.

This means extra care should be taken when upgrading, especially when
using third-party plugins or themes, since compatibility may have been
impacted along the way. We recommend that users check their install
before doing the upgrade.

CVE-2013-2173

A denial of service was found in the way wordpress performs hash
computation when checking password for protected posts. An attacker
supplying carefully crafted input as a password could make the
platform use excessive CPU usage

CVE-2013-2199

Multiple server-side requests forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities were
found in the HTTP API. This is related to CVE-2013-0235, which was
specific to SSRF in pingback requests and was fixed in 3.5.1

CVE...

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Package: wordpress
CVE ID: CVE-2013-2173 CVE-2013-2199 CVE-2013-2200 CVE-2013-2201

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