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Fedora 21: 2015-15982 Critical: WordPress XSS And Permissions Issues

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent release of WordPress 4.3.1 has raised alarms regarding certain security vulnerabilities; crucial patches are now available to rectify XSS threats and user permissions on Fedora 21.
**WordPress 4.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release** [Upstream announcement](https://wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/ WordPress 4.3.1 is now available

Summary

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

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

Important information in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/README.fedora

Update Information:

**WordPress 4.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release** [Upstream announcement](https://wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/ WordPress 4.3.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. This release addresses three issues, including two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential privilege escalation. * WordPress versions 4.3 and earlier are vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability when processing shortcode tags (CVE-2015-5714). Reported by Shahar Tal and Netanel Rubin of Check Point. * A separate cross-site scripting vulnerability was found in the user list table. Reported by Ben Bidner of the WordPress security team. * Finally, in certain cases, users without proper permissions could publish private posts and make them sticky (CVE-2015-5715). Reported by Shahar Tal and Netanel Rubin of Check Point. WordPress 4.3.1 also fixes twenty-six bugs. For more information, ...

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1263657 - CVE-2015-5714 CVE-2015-5715 wordpress: XSS and permission issue fixed in wordpress 4.3.1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263657

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 21
Version: 4.3.1
Release: 1.fc21
Summary: Blog tool and publishing platform

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