[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: wordpress-3.5.2-1.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-11630
2013-06-25 01:46:24
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Name        : wordpress
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 3.5.2
Release     : 1.fc18
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.

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Update Information:

WordPress 3.5.2 is now available. This is the second maintenance release of 3.5, fixing 12 bugs. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. The WordPress security team resolved seven security issues, and this release also contains some additional security hardening.

The security fixes included:
- Blocking server-side request forgery attacks, which could potentially enable an attacker to gain access to a site.
- Disallow contributors from improperly publishing posts, reported by Konstantin Kovshenin, or reassigning the post’s authorship, reported by Luke Bryan.
- An update to the SWFUpload external library to fix cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. Reported by mala and Szymon Gruszecki. (Developers: More on SWFUpload here.)
- Prevention of a denial of service attack, affecting sites using password-protected posts.
- An update to an external TinyMCE library to fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Reported by Wan Ikram.
- Multiple fixes for cross-site scripting. Reported by Andrea Santese and Rodrigo.
- Avoid disclosing a full file path when a upload fails. Reported by Jakub Galczyk.

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jun 24 2013 Remi Collet <rcollet at redhat.com> - 3.5.2-1
- version 3.5.2, various bug and security fixes:
  CVE-2013-2173 CVE-2013-2199 CVE-2013-2200 CVE-2013-2201
  CVE-2013-2202 CVE-2013-2203 CVE-2013-2204
* Tue Feb 12 2013 Remi Collet <rcollet at redhat.com> - 3.5.1-2
- provides POP3 class #905867
  POP3 is not from PHPMailer, but from SquirrelMail
- fix simplepie links (for all branches)
* Wed Jan 30 2013 Remi Collet <rcollet at redhat.com> - 3.5.1-1
- version 3.5.1, various bug and security fixes:
  CVE-2013-0235, CVE-2013-0236 and CVE-2013-0237
- drop -f option from rm to break build if
  upstream archive content change
- protect akismet content (from upstream .htaccess)
* Wed Jan  2 2013 Remi Collet <rcollet at redhat.com> - 3.5-3
- fix links to system PHPMailer library
* Sun Dec 16 2012 Remi Collet <rcollet at redhat.com> - 3.5-2
- fix use of system Simplepie
- give access from local (httpd 2.4)
* Wed Dec 12 2012 Matěj Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> - 3.5-1
- New upstream release.
* Tue Dec  4 2012 Matěj Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> - 3.5-0.5.RC3
- New upstream release candidate.
* Fri Nov 30 2012 Matěj Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> - 3.5-0.5.RC2
- New upstream release candidate.
* Sat Nov 24 2012 Matěj Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> - 3.5-0.5.RC1
- New upstream release candidate.
* Tue Nov 13 2012 Matěj Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> - 3.5-0.4.beta3
- New upstream beta3 version
* Mon Oct 29 2012 Remi Collet <rcollet at redhat.com> - 3.5-0.3.beta2
- use system PHPMailer
- requires needed php extensions
* Sat Oct 13 2012 Matěj Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> - 3.5-0.2.beta2
- New upstream beta2 version
* Thu Oct  4 2012 Matěj Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> - 3.5-0.2.beta1
- New upstream beta1 version
- Don’t even bother with removing gettext.php ... it is not used anymore
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #976784 - CVE-2013-2199 CVE-2013-2200 CVE-2013-2201 CVE-2013-2202 CVE-2013-2203 CVE-2013-2204 CVE-2013-2205 wordpress: Multiple security flaws to be corrected within upstream 3.5.2 version
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784
  [ 2 ] Bug #973254 - CVE-2013-2173 wordpress: DoS when computing user-input hash for certain password protected blogs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973254
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update wordpress' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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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