MGASA-2015-0309

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    MGASA-2015-0309

    Published: 10 Aug 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated wordpress package fixes security vulnerability

    Details: The wordpress package has been updated to version 3.9.8, fixing three cross-site scripting issues (CVE-2015-5732, CVE-2015-5733, CVE-2015-5734), a potential timing side-channel attack in Customizer (CVe-2015-5730), an issue in Heartbeat where an attacker could lock a post from being edited (CVE-2015-5731), and an SQL injection issue (CVE-2015-2213), as well as other bugs. See the upstream announcement and release notes for more details.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0309.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16531, http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.9.8, https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/wordpress-4-2-4-security-and-maintenance-release/, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/7

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: wordpress

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/wordpress?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.9.8-1.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High