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Fedora 10 WordPress XSS Fix: FEDORA-2009-8114 Moderate Threat

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Calendar Grey July 29, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhance your WordPress installation on Fedora 10 by updating it today to mitigate XSS threats and bolster security measures.

Summary

Wordpress is an online publishing / weblog package that makes it very easy,

almost trivial, to get information out to people on the web.

ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul 28 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.2-1

- updated to 2.8.2 for security fixes - BZ 512900

- fixed "wrong-script-end-of-line-encoding" of license.txt

- correctly disable auto update check

- fixed an error message from 'find' during the build

* Mon Jul 27 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.8.1-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri Jul 10 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.1-1

- updated to 2.8.1 for security fixes - BZ 510745

* Mon Jun 22 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8-1

- updated to 2.8

* Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.7.1-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Feb 11 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.7.1-1

- updated to 2.7.1

* Wed Nov 26 2008 Adrian Reber - 2.6.5-2

- updated to 2.6.5

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #512900 - WordPress: XSS via unescaped HTML URLs as author comments in the admin page

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use

su -c 'yum update wordpress' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Name: wordpress
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.8.2
Release: 1.fc10
Summary: WordPress blogging software

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