Debian DSA-3973-1 : wordpress-shibboleth - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103231

Synopsis

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

Description

A cross-site-scripting vulnerability has been discovered in the login form of the Shibboleth identity provider module for Wordpress.

Solution

Upgrade the wordpress-shibboleth packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-2+deb9u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874416

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/wordpress-shibboleth

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/wordpress-shibboleth

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3973

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103231

File Name: debian_DSA-3973.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress-shibboleth, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14313

DSA: 3973