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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-418-1 wordpress -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

17 Feb 2016

Affected Packages:

wordpress

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 813697.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-2221, CVE-2016-2222.

More information:

WordPress versions 4.4.1 and earlier are affected by two security issues: a possible Side Request Forgery Vulnerability for certain local URIs, reported by Ronni Skansing; and an open redirection attack, reported by Shailesh Suthar.

• CVE-2016-2221

  Wordpress could be vulnerable for an open redirection attack which was fixed by better validation of the URL used in HTTP redirects.

• CVE-2016-2222

  It was discovered that Wordpress was susceptible for a possible Side Request Forgery Vulnerability because it considered for instance 0.1.2.3 as a valid IP.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb6u9.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.