Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in Wordpress, the popular blogging engine. CVE-2015-2213 SQL Injection allowed a remote attacker to compromise the site. CVE-2015-5622 The robustness of the shortcodes HTML tags filter has been improved. The parsing is a bit more strict, which may affect your installation. This is the corrected version of the patch that needed to be reverted in DSA 3328-2. CVE-2015-5730 A potential timing side-channel attack in widgets. CVE-2015-5731 An attacker could lock a post that was being edited. CVE-2015-5732 Cross site scripting in a widget title allows an attacker to steal sensitive information. CVE-2015-5734 Fix some broken links in the legacy theme preview. The issues were discovered by Marc-Alexandre Montpas of Sucuri, Helen Hou-Sandí of the WordPress security team, Netanel Rubin of Check Point, Ivan Grigorov, Johannes Schmitt of Scrutinizer and Mohamed A. Baset. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u4. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.2.4+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.
Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in Wordpress, the popular blogging engine.
SQL Injection allowed a remote attacker to compromise the site.
The robustness of the shortcodes HTML tags filter has been improved. The parsing is a bit more strict, which may affect your installation. This is the corrected version of the patch that needed to be reverted in DSA 3328-2.
A potential timing side-channel attack in widgets.
An attacker could lock a post that was being edited.
Cross site scripting in a widget title allows an attacker to steal sensitive information.
Fix some broken links in the legacy theme preview.
The issues were discovered by Marc-Alexandre Montpas of Sucuri, Helen Hou-Sandí of the WordPress security team, Netanel Rubin of Check Point, Ivan Grigorov, Johannes Schmitt of Scrutinizer and Mohamed A. Baset.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u4.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.2.4+dfsg-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.