Summary
Multiple security issues have been discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool, resulting in denial of service or information disclosure.
More information can be found in the upstream advisory at https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ .
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u4.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.9.2+dfsg-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.
Insight
WordPress is a full featured web blogging tool:
* Instant publishing (no rebuilding)
* Comment pingback support with spam protection
* Non-crufty URLs
* Themable
* Plugin support
Affected
wordpress on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
