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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1980-1 wordpress -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

05 Nov 2019

Affected Packages:

wordpress

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-17669, CVE-2019-17670, CVE-2019-17671, CVE-2019-17675.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities in wordpress, a web blogging tool, have been fixed.

• CVE-2019-17669

  Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability because URL validation does not consider the interpretation of a name as a series of hex characters.

• CVE-2019-17670

  Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability was reported in wp_validate_redirect(). Normalize the path when validating the location for relative URLs.

• CVE-2019-17671

  Unauthenticated viewing of certain content (private or draft posts) is possible because the static query property is mishandled.

• CVE-2019-17675

  Wordpress does not properly consider type confusion during validation of the referer in the admin pages. This vulnerability affects the check_admin_referer() WordPress function.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.28+dfsg-0+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

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