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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3332-1 (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 fixed in Wordpress, the popular blogging engine. CVE-2015-2213 SQL Injection allowed a remote attacker to compromise the site. 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. This is the corrected version of the patch that needed to be reverted in DSA 3328-2. CVE-2015-5730 A potential timing side-channel attack in widgets. CVE-2015-5731 An attacker could lock a post that was being edited. CVE-2015-5732 Cross site scripting in a widget title allows an attacker to steal sensitive information. CVE-2015-5734 Fix some broken links in the legacy theme preview. The issues were discovered by Marc-Alexandre Montpas of Sucuri, Helen Hou-Sand of the WordPress security team, Netanel Rubin of Check Point, Ivan Grigorov, Johannes Schmitt of Scrutinizer and Mohamed A. Baset.
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+deb8u4. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.2.4+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.