Debian DSA-3250-1 : wordpress - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83236

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Multiple security issues have been discovered in Wordpress, a weblog manager, that could allow remote attackers to upload files with invalid or unsafe names, mount social engineering attacks or compromise a site via cross-site scripting, and inject SQL commands.

More information can be found in the upstream advisories at and

Solution

Upgrade the wordpress packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u6.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83236

File Name: debian_DSA-3250.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/5/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3438, CVE-2015-3439, CVE-2015-3440

BID: 74269, 74334

DSA: 3250

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