[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: wordpress-4.7.1-1.fc24
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-01c3288bef
2017-01-20 14:14:03.031057
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Name : wordpress
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 4.7.1
Release : 1.fc24
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 4.7.1** Security and Maintenance Release This is a security release
for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites
immediately. WordPress versions 4.7 and earlier are affected by eight security
issues: * Remote code execution (RCE) in PHPMailer ��� No specific issue
appears to affect WordPress or any of the major plugins we investigated but, out
of an abundance of caution, we updated PHPMailer in this release. This issue was
reported to PHPMailer by Dawid Golunski and Paul Buonopane. * The REST API
exposed user data for all users who had authored a post of a public post type.
WordPress 4.7.1 limits this to only post types which have specified that they
should be shown within the REST API. Reported by Krogsgard and Chris Jean. *
Cross-site scripting (XSS) via the plugin name or version header on update-
core.php. Reported by Dominik Schilling of the WordPress Security Team. *
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bypass via uploading a Flash file. Reported by
Abdullah Hussam. * Cross-site scripting (XSS) via theme name fallback.
Reported by Mehmet Ince. * Post via email checks mail.example.com if default
settings aren���t changed. Reported by John Blackbourn of the WordPress Security
Team. * A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) was discovered in the
accessibility mode of widget editing. Reported by Ronnie Skansing. * Weak
cryptographic security for multisite activation key. Reported by Jack. Thank
you to the reporters for practicing responsible disclosure. In addition to the
security issues above, WordPress 4.7.1 fixes 62 bugs from 4.7. For more
information, see the [release notes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1)
or consult the [list of
changes](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?milestone=4.7.1).
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade wordpress' 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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