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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2067-1 wordpress -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

14 Jan 2020

Affected Packages:

wordpress

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 946905.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-20041.

More information:

An input sanitization bypass was discovered in Wordpress, a popular content management framework. An attacker can use this flaw to send malicious scripts to an unsuspecting user.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.29+dfsg-0+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

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