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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2138-1 wordpress -- SQL injection

Date Reported:

29 Dec 2010

Affected Packages:

wordpress

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-4257.

More information:

Vladimir Kolesnikov discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in WordPress, a weblog manager. An authenticated user could execute arbitrary SQL commands via the Send Trackbacks field.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.1-11+lenny4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), and the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress package.

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