Advisories » MGASA-2014-0493

Updated wordpress package fixes security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 26 Nov 2014
Modification date: 26 Nov 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 3 , 4
CVE: CVE-2014-9031 , CVE-2014-9032 , CVE-2014-9033 , CVE-2014-9034 , CVE-2014-9035 , CVE-2014-9036 , CVE-2014-9037 , CVE-2014-9038 , CVE-2014-9039

Description

XSS in wptexturize() via comments or posts, exploitable for unauthenticated users (CVE-2014-9031).

XSS in media playlists (CVE-2014-9032).

CSRF in the password reset process (CVE-2014-9033).

Denial of service for giant passwords. The phpass library by Solar Designer
was used in both projects without setting a maximum password length, which
can lead to CPU exhaustion upon hashing (CVE-2014-9034).

XSS in Press This (CVE-2014-9035).

XSS in HTML filtering of CSS in posts (CVE-2014-9036).

Hash comparison vulnerability in old-style MD5-stored passwords
(CVE-2014-9037).

SSRF: Safe HTTP requests did not sufficiently block the loopback IP address
space (CVE-2014-9038).

Previously an email address change would not invalidate a previous password
reset email (CVE-2014-9039).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14625
• https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9031
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9032
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9033
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9034
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9035
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9036
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9037
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9038
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9039

SRPMS

4/core

• wordpress-3.9.3-1.mga4

3/core

• wordpress-3.9.3-1.mga3