Debian DLA-418-1 : wordpress security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 88766

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

WordPress versions 4.4.1 and earlier are affected by two security issues: a possible Side Request Forgery Vulnerability for certain local URIs, reported by Ronni Skansing; and an open redirection attack, reported by Shailesh Suthar.

CVE-2016-2221 Wordpress could be vulnerable for an open redirection attack which was fixed by better validation of the URL used in HTTP redirects.

CVE-2016-2222 It was discovered that Wordpress was susceptible for a possible Side Request Forgery Vulnerability because it considered for instance 0.1.2.3 as a valid IP.

For Debian 6 'Squeeze', these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb6u9.

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: 88766

File Name: debian_DLA-418.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/17/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

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: 2/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2221, CVE-2016-2222

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