Fedora 21 : wordpress-4.2.2-1.fc21 (2015-6808)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83751

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

**WordPress 4.2 'Powell' **

- Upstream announcement https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/powell/

**WordPress 4.2.1 Security Release**

- Upstream announcement https://wordpress.org/news/2015/04/wordpress-4-2-1/

**WordPress 4.2.2 Security and Maintenance Release**

- Upstream announcement https://wordpress.org/news/2015/05/wordpress-4-2-2/

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected wordpress package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83751

File Name: fedora_2015-6808.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 5/21/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3429, CVE-2015-3438, CVE-2015-3439, CVE-2015-3440

FEDORA: 2015-6808

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