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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3328-1                   security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/                          Thijs Kinkhorst
August 04, 2015                       https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : wordpress
CVE ID         : CVE-2015-3429 CVE-2015-5622 CVE-2015-5623
Debian Bug     : 784603

Several vulnerabilities have been found in Wordpress, the popular
blogging engine.

CVE-2015-3429

    The file example.html in the Genericicons icon font package and
    twentyfifteen Wordpress theme allowed for cross site scripting.

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-2015-5623

    A cross site scripting vulnerability allowed users with the
    Contributor or Author role to elevate their privileges.

The oldstable distribution (wheezy) is only affected by CVE-2015-5622.
This less critical issue will be fixed at a later time.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.2.3+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/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Debian: DSA-3328-1: wordpress security update

August 4, 2015
Several vulnerabilities have been found in Wordpress, the popular blogging engine

Summary

CVE-2015-3429

The file example.html in the Genericicons icon font package and
twentyfifteen Wordpress theme allowed for cross site scripting.

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-2015-5623

A cross site scripting vulnerability allowed users with the
Contributor or Author role to elevate their privileges.

The oldstable distribution (wheezy) is only affected by CVE-2015-5622.
This less critical issue will be fixed at a later time.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.2.3+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/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Severity
Several vulnerabilities have been found in Wordpress, the popular
blogging engine.

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