Package: wordpress Version: 5.8.3+dfsg1-1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>
WordPress has released version 5.9.2 that has one bug fix and three security fixes[1]. They state the security fixes are required back to 3.7 so all releases are vulnerable. It is difficult to see what has actually changed between 5.9.1 and 5.9.2[2] WordPress gives no details except: Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in a jQuery dependency Stored Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability Besides version string changes, the two actual changes I can see are: * Adding another conditional to the theme installer * Updating jquery from 2.1.7 to 2.2.3 The theme installer change[3] references upstream bug 54578[4] which is also linked in [1] as the bug fix (separate to the 3 security fixes). My conclusion is the three security issues must live in jquery and upgrading from 2.1.7 to 2.2.3 fixes this. Prototype pollution mentioned in the wordpress announcement sounds a lot like CVE-2022-23395[5] or CVE-2019-11358[6] Looking at the patches, it looks like the latter. I'm not sure about the other two, they could be CVE-2020-11022 and CVE-2020-11023 but cannot confirm this. - Craig 1: https://wordpress.org/news/2022/03/wordpress-5-9-2-security-maintenance-release/ 2: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=52874%40branches%2F5.9&old=52786%40branches%2F5.9&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= 3: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/52803/branches/5.9 4: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54578 5: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23395 6: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11358 -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages wordpress depends on: pn apache2 | httpd <none> ii ca-certificates 20211016 pn default-mysql-client | virtual-mysql-client <none> pn libapache2-mod-php | php <none> pn libjs-cropper <none> ii libjs-underscore 1.13.2~dfsg-2 pn php-gd <none> pn php-getid3 <none> pn php-mysql | php-mysqlnd <none> Versions of packages wordpress recommends: pn wordpress-l10n <none> pn wordpress-theme-twentytwentyone <none> Versions of packages wordpress suggests: pn default-mysql-server | virtual-mysql-server <none> pn php-ssh2 <none>
