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Fedora: FEDORA-2009-11687 Critical: WordPress 2.8.6 Exploit Fix

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
WordPress 3.5.1 addresses critical vulnerabilities impacting administrative roles in Ubuntu 12.04. Update advised.
2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges

Summary

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

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

Update Information:

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

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Change Log

* Mon Nov 16 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.6-2 - updated to 2.8.6 (Security Release) * Wed Oct 21 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.5-1 - updated to 2.8.5 (Hardening Release) * Sun Aug 30 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.4-1 - updated to 2.8.4 (security fixes were already available with 2.8.3-2) * Tue Aug 11 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.3-2 - another security update to fix "Remote admin reset password": * Mon Aug 3 2009 Adrian Reber - 2.8.3-1 - updated to 2.8.3 for security fixes * 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

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-11687 2009-11-18 13:33:21
Name : wordpress Product : Fedora 10 Version : 2.8.6 Release : 2.fc10 URL : https://wordpress.org/ Summary : WordPress blogging software Description : Wordpress is an online publishing / weblog package that makes it very easy, almost trivial, to get information out to people on the web.

Update Instructions

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 .

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Name: wordpress
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.8.6
Release: 2.fc10
URL: https://wordpress.org/
Summary: WordPress blogging software

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