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Fedora 27 : wordpress (2017-f293e717e2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106001

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to wordpress 4.8.3. See:
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/10/wordpress-4-8-3-security-release/ for details

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-f293e717e2

https://wordpress.org/news/2017/10/wordpress-4-8-3-security-release/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106001

File Name: fedora_2017-f293e717e2.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2017

Reference Information