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WordPress 5.4 to 5.8 - Lodash Library Update

Description

On September 9, 2021 WordPress version 5.8.1 was released fixing three vulnerabilities.

The official blog post states:

"The Lodash library has been updated to version 4.17.21 in each branch to incorporate upstream security fixes."

The Lodash changelog states that a command injection vulnerability was recently patched. See references.

Affects WordPress

5.8
Fixed in version 5.8.1
5.7.2
Fixed in version 5.7.3
5.7.1
Fixed in version 5.7.3
5.7
Fixed in version 5.7.3
5.6.4
Fixed in version 5.6.5
5.6.3
Fixed in version 5.6.5
5.6.2
Fixed in version 5.6.5
5.6.1
Fixed in version 5.6.5
5.6
Fixed in version 5.6.5
5.5.5
Fixed in version 5.5.6

References

URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2021/09/wordpress-5-8-1-security-and-maintenance-release/
URL
https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/Changelog
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/fb7ecd92acef6c813c1fde6d9d24a21e02340689

Classification

Type

INJECTION

OWASP top 10
A1: Injection

Miscellaneous

Verified

No

WPVDB ID
5d6789db-e320-494b-81bb-e678674f4199

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-09-09 (about 11 months ago)

Added

2021-09-09 (about 11 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-05-19 (about 2 months ago)

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