Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5039-1 wordpress -- security update

Date Reported:

11 Jan 2022

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 1003243.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-21661, CVE-2022-21662, CVE-2022-21663, CVE-2022-21664.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform SQL injection, run unchecked SQL queries, bypass hardening, or perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 5.0.15+dfsg1-0+deb10u1.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 5.7.5+dfsg1-0+deb11u1.

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