Fedora 28: 2018-623df1e98d Critical: WordPress Code Execution Risk

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 to 4.9.7 security release.

https://wordpress.org/news/2018/07/wordpress-4-9-7-security-and-maintenance-release/

* Thu Jul 5 2018 Kevin Fenzi - 4.9.7-1

- Update to 4.9.7 security update. Fixes bug #1598612

- Fixes CVE-2018-12895 bugs #1595584 and #1595585

* Fri May 18 2018 Kevin Fenzi - 4.9.6-1

- Update to 4.9.6. Fixes bug #1579584

[ 1 ] Bug #1595585 - CVE-2018-12895 wordpress: Author users can execute arbitrary code by leveraging directory traversal on the wp-admin/post.php thumb parameter [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595585

[ 2 ] Bug #1598612 - wordpress-4.9.7 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598612

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-623df1e98d' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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