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Debian DSA-3332-1 Critical Advisory: Wordpress Security Updates

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Calendar Grey August 11, 2015
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Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in Wordpress, the popular blogging engine

Summary

CVE-2015-2213

SQL Injection allowed a remote attacker to compromise the site.

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. This is the corrected version of the patch
that needed to be reverted in DSA 3328-2.

CVE-2015-4730

A potential timing side-channel attack in widgets.

CVE-2015-5731

An attacker could lock a post that was being edited.

CVE-2015-5732

Cross site scripting in a widget title allows an attacker to
steal sensitive information.

CVE-2015-5734

Fix some broken links in the legacy theme preview.

The issues were discovered by Marc-Alexandre Montpas of Sucuri,
Helen Hou-Sandí of the WordPress security team, Netanel Rubin of Check Point,
Ivan Grigorov, Johannes Schmitt of Scrutinizer and Mohamed A. Baset.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these probl...

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Package: wordpress
CVE ID: CVE-2015-2213 CVE-2015-5622 CVE-2015-5730 CVE-2015-5731

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