Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4709-1 wordpress -- security update

Date Reported:

23 Jun 2020

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 962685.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-4047, CVE-2020-4048, CVE-2020-4049, CVE-2020-4050.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform various Cross-Side Scripting (XSS) attacks, create open redirects, escalate privileges, and bypass authorization access.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 5.0.10+dfsg1-0+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

For the detailed security status of wordpress please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/wordpress