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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4250-1 wordpress -- security update

Date Reported:

18 Jul 2018

Affected Packages:

wordpress

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 902876.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-12895.

More information:

A vulnerability was discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. It allowed remote attackers with specific roles to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u4.

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