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Fedora 26 : wordpress (2017-fe7c3c9c30)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101755

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

**WordPress 4.7.5** is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

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.

Thank you to the reporters of these issues for practicing responsible disclosure.

In addition to the security issues above, WordPress 4.7.5 contains 3 maintenance fixes to the 4.7 release series. For more information, see the [release notes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.5) or consult the [list of changes](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone =4.7.5&group=component&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=status&col =owner&col=type&col=priority&col=keywords&order=priority).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected wordpress package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-fe7c3c9c30

https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.5

http://www.nessus.org/u?78be042d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101755

File Name: fedora_2017-fe7c3c9c30.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2017

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