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Fedora 22 WordPress 4.2.2 Security Advisory: Cross-Site Scripting Fix

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The recent update to WordPress 4.2.2 introduces critical security enhancements for Fedora 22, tackling significant vulnerabilities linked to cross-site scripting.
**WordPress 4.2.2 Security and Maintenance Release** * Upstream announcement https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/

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 4.2.2 Security and Maintenance Release** * Upstream announcement https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/

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security advisory security update Fedora cross-site scripting fix software maintenance wordpress

Change Log

* Thu May 7 2015 Remi Collet - 4.2.2-1 - WordPress 4.2.2 Security and Maintenance Release

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1219368 - wordpress: two cross-site scripting flaws fixed in 4.2.2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1219368

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 22
Version: 4.2.2
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://wordpress.org/
Summary: Blog tool and publishing platform

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora cross-site scripting fix software maintenance wordpress

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