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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1452-1 wordpress -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 Jul 2018

Affected Packages:

wordpress

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 902876.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5836, CVE-2018-12895.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues.

• CVE-2016-5836

  The oEmbed protocol implementation in WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

• CVE-2018-12895

  A vulnerability was discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. It allowed remote attackers with specific roles to execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u18.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

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