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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3328-1 (wordpress - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Several vulnerabilities have been found in Wordpress, the popular blogging engine. CVE-2015-3429 The file example.html in the Genericicons icon font package and twentyfifteen Wordpress theme allowed for cross site scripting. CVE-2015-5622 The robustness of the shortcodes HTML tags filter has been improved. The parsing is a bit more strict, which may affect your installation. CVE-2015-5623 A cross site scripting vulnerability allowed users with the Contributor or Author role to elevate their privileges. The oldstable distribution (wheezy) is only affected by CVE-2015-5622 . This less critical issue will be fixed at a later time.
Affected Software
Affected Software
wordpress on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.2.3+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.