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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1366-1 wordpress -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

27 Apr 2018

Affected Packages:

wordpress

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 895034.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-10100, CVE-2018-10102.

More information:

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

• CVE-2018-10100

  The redirection URL for the login page was not validated or sanitized if forced to use HTTPS.

• CVE-2018-10102

  The version string was not escaped in the get_the_generator function, and could lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) in a generator tag.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u21.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

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