Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for wordpress. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, and to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for wordpress
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29994
VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/29994/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 7
https://secunia.com/product/15552/
Fedora 8
https://secunia.com/product/16769/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for wordpress. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security
restrictions, and to compromise a vulnerable system.
For more information:
SA29965
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update wordpress").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00524.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00606.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29965:
https://secunia.com/advisories/29965/
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