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WordPress < 5.4.2

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137627

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Synopsis

A PHP application running on the remote web server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the installation of WordPress installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities:
- Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities exist in Wordpress due to improper validation of user-supplied input before returning it to users. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit these , by convincing a user to click a specially crafted URL, to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session (CVE-2020-4047, CVE-2020-4049).

 - An open-redirect vulnerability exists in Wordpress due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input.
 An unauthenticated, remote attack can exploit this to redirect users to potentially malicious sites (CVE-2020-4048).
 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version

Solution

Upgrade to WordPress version 5.4.2 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd3bf98c

http://www.nessus.org/u?1aff0f95

https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-4-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137627

File Name: wordpress_5_4_2.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 6/18/2020

Updated: 6/6/2024

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Enable CGI Scanning: true

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-4050

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-4047

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress

Required KB Items: installed_sw/WordPress, www/PHP, Settings/ParanoidReport

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/10/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-4046, CVE-2020-4047, CVE-2020-4048, CVE-2020-4049, CVE-2020-4050

IAVA: 2020-A-0266-S