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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3444-1 wordpress -- security update

Date Reported:

13 Jan 2016

Affected Packages:

wordpress

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 810325.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1564.

More information:

Crtc4L discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in wordpress, a web blogging tool, allowing a remote authenticated administrator to compromise the site.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u9.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.4.1+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.