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Fedora 40 : wordpress (2024-e6d3143991)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194576

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-e6d3143991 advisory.

 Upstream annoucement: [WordPress 6.5.2 Maintenance and Security Release](https://wordpress.org/news/2024/04/wordpress-6-5-2-maintenance-and-security-release/)

 Security updates included in this release

 * A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Avatar block type; reported by John Blackbourn of the WordPress security team. Many thanks to Mat Rollings for assisting with the research.


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 Upstream announcement: [WordPress 6.5 Regina](https://wordpress.org/news/2024/04/regina/)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected wordpress package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-e6d3143991

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194576

File Name: fedora_2024-e6d3143991.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2024

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