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Debian DLA-860-1 : wordpress security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97797

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues.

CVE-2017-6814

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via media file metadata

CVE-2017-6815

Control characters can trick redirect URL validation in wp-includes/pluggable.php

CVE-2017-6816

Unintended files can be deleted by administrators using the plugin deletion functionality

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u14.

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.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/03/msg00017.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/wordpress

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97797

File Name: debian_DLA-860.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2017

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: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress-l10n, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6814, CVE-2017-6815, CVE-2017-6816