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Fedora 40 : wordpress (2024-6a4ffde369)

high Nessus Plugin ID 202163

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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-2024-6a4ffde369 advisory.

 **WordPress 6.5.5 Maintenance & Security Release**


 Security updates included in this release

 The security team would like to thank the following people for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities, and allowing them to be fixed in this release:

 * A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the HTML API reported by Dennis Snell of the WordPress Core Team, along with Alex Concha and Grzegorz (Greg) Zikowski of the WordPress security team.
 * A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Template Part block reported independently by Rafie Muhammad of Patchstack and during a third party security audit.
 * A path traversal issue affecting sites hosted on Windows reported independently by Rafie M & Edouard L of Patchstack, David Fifield, x89, apple502j, and mishre.

 See also the [Upstream announcement](https://wordpress.org/news/2024/06/wordpress-6-5-5/)


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-2024-6a4ffde369

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 202163

File Name: fedora_2024-6a4ffde369.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/11/2024

Updated: 7/11/2024

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: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: 7/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2024

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