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Posted on 04 August 2015
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3328-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst
August 04, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : wordpress
CVE ID : CVE-2015-3429 CVE-2015-5622 CVE-2015-5623
Debian Bug : 784603
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.
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.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
