Debian Security Advisory DSA 3383-1 (wordpress - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: 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. CVE-2015-5714 A cross-site scripting vulnerability when processing shortcode tags. CVE-2015-5715 A vulnerability has been discovered, allowing users without proper permissions to publish private posts and make them sticky. 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. CVE-2015-7989 A cross-site scripting vulnerability in user list tables.

wordpress on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u8. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u5 or earlier in DSA-3332-1 and DSA-3375-1. For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.1+dfsg-1 or earlier versions. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.1+dfsg-1 or earlier versions. We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.