Fedora 38 : wordpress (2023-c42a4b2eab)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183869

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-c42a4b2eab advisory.

**WordPress 6.3.2 Maintenance and Security release**

This security and maintenance release features 19 bug fixes on Core, 22 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 8 security fixes.

Security updates included in this release:

* Marc Montpas of Automattic for finding a potential disclosure of user email addresses.
* Marc Montpas of Automattic for finding an RCE POP Chains vulnerability.
* Rafie Muhammad and Edouard L of Patchstack along with a WordPress commissioned third-party audit for each independently identifying a XSS issue in the post link navigation block.
* Jb Audras of the WordPress Security Team and Rafie Muhammad of Patchstack for each independently discovering an issue where comments on private posts could be leaked to other users.
* John Blackbourn (WordPress Security Team), James Golovich, J.D Grimes, Numan Turle, WhiteCyberSec for each independently identifying a way for logged-in users to execute any shortcode.
* mascara7784 and a third-party security audit for identifying a XSS vulnerability in the application password screen.
* Jorge Costa of the WordPress Core Team for identifying XSS vulnerability in the footnotes block.
* s5s and raouf_maklouf for independently identifying a cache poisoning DoS vulnerability.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected wordpress package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183869

File Name: fedora_2023-c42a4b2eab.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-39999

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/13/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-39999

FEDORA: 2023-c42a4b2eab

IAVA: 2023-A-0567-S

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