Debian DLA-294-1 : wordpress security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 85546

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

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

CVE-2015-2213

SQL Injection allowed a remote attacker to compromise the site.

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.
This is the corrected version of the patch that needed to be reverted in DSA 3328-2.

CVE-2015-5731

An attacker could lock a post that was being edited.

CVE-2015-5732

Cross site scripting in a widget title allows an attacker to steal sensitive information.

CVE-2015-5734

Fix some broken links in the legacy theme preview.

The issues were discovered by Marc-Alexandre Montpas of Sucuri, Helen Hou-Sandí of the WordPress security team, Netanel Rubin of Check Point, Ivan Grigorov, Johannes Schmitt of Scrutinizer and Mohamed A. Baset.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected wordpress, and wordpress-l10n packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85546

File Name: debian_DLA-294.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 8/20/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress-l10n

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2213, CVE-2015-5622, CVE-2015-5731, CVE-2015-5732, CVE-2015-5734

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