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Debian DSA-3250-1: Wordpress Remote Upload, XSS, SQL Risks

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Calendar Grey May 4, 2015
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3251-1 outlines a series of vulnerabilities in Joomla that impact file handling and system stability.
Multiple security issues have been discovered in Wordpress, a weblog manager, that could allow remote attackers to upload files with invalid or unsafe names, mount social engineeri...
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Summary

More information can be found in the upstream advisories at
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-1-2/ and
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u6.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.2.1+dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.2.1+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: wordpress
CVE ID: CVE-2015-3438 CVE-2015-3439 CVE-2015-3440

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