FreeBSD : wordpress -- XSS (a467d0f9-8875-11dc-b3ba-0016179b2dd5)

low Nessus Plugin ID 27610

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

A Secunia Advisory report :

Input passed to the 'posts_columns' parameter in wp-admin/edit-post-rows.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://wordpress.org/news/2007/10/wordpress-231/

http://www.nessus.org/u?c47cfbae

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 27610

File Name: freebsd_pkg_a467d0f9887511dcb3ba0016179b2dd5.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 11/2/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:de-wordpress, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:wordpress, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:zh-wordpress, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 11/1/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5710

CWE: 79

Secunia: 27407