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Debian: DSA-3639-1 Critical: WordPress Denial Of Service And XSS

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Calendar Grey August 3, 2016
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New WordPress update rolled out to address various security threats including denial of service attacks and cross-site scripting flaws.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool, which could allow remote attackers to compromise a site via cross-site scripting, bypass restrictions, ob...
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security advisory denial of service critical debian cross-site scripting wordpress sensitive information exposure

Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u9.

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-2015-8834 CVE-2016-5832 CVE-2016-5834 CVE-2016-5835

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security advisory denial of service critical debian cross-site scripting wordpress sensitive information exposure

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