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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-b386fac43a
2020-11-11 01:19:50.943602
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Name : wordpress
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 5.5.3
Release : 1.fc32
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.
Important information in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/README.fedora
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Update Information:
**WordPress 5.5.3 Maintenance Release** This maintenance release fixes an issue
introduced in WordPress 5.5.2 which makes it impossible to install WordPress on
a brand new website that does not have a database connection configured. ----
**WordPress 5.5.2 Security and Maintenance Release** **Security Updates** *
Props to Alex Concha of the WordPress Security Team for their work in hardening
deserialization requests. * Props to David Binovec on a fix to disable spam
embeds from disabled sites on a multisite network. * Thanks to Marc Montas
from Sucuri for reporting an issue that could lead to XSS from global variables.
* Thanks to Justin Tran who reported an issue surrounding privilege
escalation in XML-RPC. He also found and disclosed an issue around privilege
escalation around post commenting via XML-RPC. * Props to Omar Ganiev who
reported a method where a DoS attack could lead to RCE. * Thanks to Karim El
Ouerghemmi from RIPS who disclosed a method to store XSS in post slugs. *
Thanks to Slavco for reporting, and confirmation from Karim El Ouerghemmi, a
method to bypass protected meta that could lead to arbitrary file deletion. *
Thanks to Erwan LR from WPScan who responsibly disclosed a method that could
lead to CSRF. * And a special thanks to @zieladam who was integral in many of
the releases and patches during this release.
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ChangeLog:
* Sat Oct 31 2020 Remi Collet <remi(a)remirepo.net> - 5.5.3-1
- WordPress 5.5.3 Maintenance Release
* Fri Oct 30 2020 Remi Collet <remi(a)remirepo.net> - 5.5.2-1
- WordPress 5.5.2 Security and Maintenance Release
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1894947 - CVE-2020-28032 wordpress: hardening deserialization requests
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894947
[ 2 ] Bug #1894954 - CVE-2020-28033 wordpress: disable spam embeds from disabled sites
on a multisite network
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894954
[ 3 ] Bug #1894957 - CVE-2020-28035 wordpress: XML-RPC privilege escalation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894957
[ 4 ] Bug #1894962 - CVE-2020-28034 wordpress: XSS via global variables
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894962
[ 5 ] Bug #1894966 - CVE-2020-28036 wordpress: privilege escalation by using XML-RPC to
comment on a post
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894966
[ 6 ] Bug #1894969 - CVE-2020-28037 wordpress: DoS attack could lead to RCE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894969
[ 7 ] Bug #1894974 - CVE-2020-28038 wordpress: stored XSS in post slugs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894974
[ 8 ] Bug #1894982 - CVE-2020-28039 wordpress: protected meta that could lead to
arbitrary file deletion
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894982
[ 9 ] Bug #1894995 - CVE-2020-28040 wordpress: CSRF attacks that change a theme's
background image
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894995
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-b386fac43a' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project 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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