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policy.wikimedia.org SSL vulnerability
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Legal, can you please either contact whoever is in technical control of policy.wikimedia.org, or forward contact/account information to Operations? The server for this site is vulnerable to a serious TLS flaw ( CVE-2016-2107 ) which was patched and released over a month ago in OpenSSL.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=policy.wikimedia.org

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policy.wm runs on https://vip.wordpress.com/

It appears to be running on different servers to the blog which is hosted there:

alex@alex-laptop:~$ host policy.wikimedia.org
policy.wikimedia.org has address 192.0.66.2
alex@alex-laptop:~$ host blog.wikimedia.org
blog.wikimedia.org is an alias for wikimediablog.wordpress.com.
wikimediablog.wordpress.com is an alias for vip-lb.wordpress.com.
vip-lb.wordpress.com has address 192.0.79.33
vip-lb.wordpress.com has address 192.0.79.32

I've reported this to wordpress, and I'll update here as they resolve it.

WordPress tells me that they have resolved the issue. It looks fixed to me, but this is a bit outside my area of expertise. Do you see anything else we need to do to fully address it? Thanks!

Yup looks great, thanks!