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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-0233
2013-02-01 12:38:56
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Name : wordpress
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 3.5.1
Release : 2.el6
URL :
http://www.wordpress.org
Summary : Blog tool and publishing platform
Description :
Wordpress is an online publishing / weblog package that makes it very easy,
almost trivial, to get information out to people on the web.
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Update Information:
WordPress 3.5.1 is now available. Version 3.5.1 is the first maintenance release of 3.5,
fixing 37 bugs. It is also a security release for all previous WordPress versions. Which
include:
* Editor: Prevent certain HTML elements from being unexpectedly removed or modified in
rare cases.
* Media: Fix a collection of minor workflow and compatibility issues in the new media
manager.
* Networks: Suggest proper rewrite rules when creating a new network.
* Prevent scheduled posts from being stripped of certain HTML, such as video embeds, when
they are published.
* Work around some misconfigurations that may have caused some JavaScript in the WordPress
admin area to fail.
* Suppress some warnings that could occur when a plugin misused the database or user
APIs.
WordPress 3.5.1 also addresses the following security issues:
* A server-side request forgery vulnerability and remote port scanning using pingbacks.
This vulnerability, which could potentially be used to expose information and compromise a
site, affects all previous WordPress versions. This was fixed by the WordPress security
team. We’d like to thank security researchers Gennady Kovshenin and Ryan Dewhurst for
reviewing our work.
* Two instances of cross-site scripting via shortcodes and post content. These issues were
discovered by Jon Cave of the WordPress security team.
* A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the external library Plupload. Thanks to the
Moxiecode team for working with us on this, and for releasing Plupload 1.5.5 to address
this issue.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #904120 - CVE-2013-0235 wordpress: Server-side request forgery and remote port
scanning using pingbacks
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904120
[ 2 ] Bug #904121 - wordpress: XSS flaws via shortcodes and HTTP POST content
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904121
[ 3 ] Bug #904122 - wordpress: XSS in the external Plupload library
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904122
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update wordpress' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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