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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2901-1 wordpress -- security update

Date Reported:

12 Apr 2014

Affected Packages:

wordpress

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 744018.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0165, CVE-2014-0166.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2014-0165

  A user with a contributor role, using a specially crafted request, can publish posts, which is reserved for users of the next-higher role.

• CVE-2014-0166

  Jon Cave of the WordPress security team discovered that the wp_validate_auth_cookie function in wp-includes/pluggable.php does not properly determine the validity of authentication cookies, allowing a remote attacker to obtain access via a forged cookie.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb6u2.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u2.

For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3.8.2+dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.8.2+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.