Debian DSA-3328-1 : wordpress - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85352

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Synopsis

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

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been found in Wordpress, the popular blogging engine.

- CVE-2015-3429 The file example.html in the Genericicons icon font package and twentyfifteen Wordpress theme allowed for cross site scripting.

- CVE-2015-5622 The robustness of the shortcodes HTML tags filter has been improved. The parsing is a bit more strict, which may affect your installation.

- CVE-2015-5623 A cross site scripting vulnerability allowed users with the Contributor or Author role to elevate their privileges.

The oldstable distribution (wheezy) is only affected by CVE-2015-5622.
This less critical issue will be fixed at a later time.

Solution

Upgrade the wordpress packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85352

File Name: debian_DSA-3328.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/13/2015

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

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3429, CVE-2015-5622, CVE-2015-5623

DSA: 3328

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