Multiple security issues have been discovered in Wordpress, a web
blogging tool, resulting in denial of service or information disclosure.
More information can be found in the upstream advisory at
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/
CVE-2014-9031
Jouko Pynnonen discovered an unauthenticated cross site scripting
vulnerability (XSS) in wptexturize(), exploitable via comments or
posts.
CVE-2014-9033
Cross site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the password
changing process, which could be used by an attacker to trick an
user into changing her password.
CVE-2014-9034
Javier Nieto Arevalo and Andres Rojas Guerrero reported a potential
denial of service in the way the phpass library is used to handle
passwords, since no maximum password length was set.
CVE-2014-9035
John Blackbourn reported an XSS in the "Press This" function (used
for quick publishing using a browser "bookmarklet").
CVE-2014-9036
Robert Chapin reported an XSS in the HTML ...
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