Bug 618704 (CVE-2017-8295) – <www-apps/wordpress-4.7.5: Multiple Vulnerablities (CVE-2017-8295)

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Yury German 2017-05-17 00:42:03 UTC]

WordPress versions 4.7.4 and earlier are affected by six security issues:

Insufficient redirect validation in the HTTP class. Reported by Ronni Skansing.
Improper handling of post meta data values in the XML-RPC API. Reported by Sam Thomas.
Lack of capability checks for post meta data in the XML-RPC API. Reported by Ben Bidner of the WordPress Security Team.
A Cross Site Request Forgery (CRSF)  vulnerability was discovered in the filesystem credentials dialog. Reported by Yorick Koster.
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered when attempting to upload very large files. Reported by Ronni Skansing.
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered related to the Customizer. Reported by Weston Ruter of the WordPress Security Team.

[Comment 1 Yury German 2017-05-17 00:43:39 UTC]

Please upgrade to www-apps/wordpress-4.7.5

[Comment 2 Sebastian Pipping 2017-05-17 13:22:26 UTC]

Please feel free to further adjust the new bug title!

@security, is there anything more to do than a bump?


commit 54e7ccf5b916874d931ffe10d36e4061e42a0ef2
Author: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
Date:   Wed May 17 15:18:42 2017 +0200

    www-apps/wordpress: 4.7.5
    
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.5, Repoman-2.3.2

 www-apps/wordpress/Manifest                                           | 2 +-
 www-apps/wordpress/{wordpress-4.7.4.ebuild => wordpress-4.7.5.ebuild} | 0
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/54e7ccf5b916874d931ffe10d36e4061e42a0ef2

[Comment 3 Yury German 2017-05-18 05:41:24 UTC]

That is all that needs to be done for non-stable packages. Thank you!