Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4090-1 wordpress -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Jan 2018

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 862816, Bug 883314, Bug 880528.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-9066, CVE-2017-16510, CVE-2017-17091, CVE-2017-17092, CVE-2017-17093, CVE-2017-17094.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform SQL injections and various Cross-Side Scripting (XSS) and Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks, as well as bypass some access restrictions.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u16.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u2.

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