SPIP before 3.1.11 and 3.2 before 3.2.5 provides different error messages from the password-reminder page depending on whether an e-mail address exists, which might help attackers to enumerate subscribers.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - SPIP before 3.1.11 and 3.2 before 3.2.5 provides different error messages from the password-reminder page     depending on whether an e-mail address exists, which might help attackers to enumerate subscribers.
    (CVE-2019-16394)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4536-1 advisory.

    Youssouf Boulouiz discovered that SPIP incorrectly handled login error messages. A remote attacker could     potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2019-16392)

    Gilles Vincent discovered that SPIP incorrectly handled password reset requests. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause SPIP to enumerate registered users. (CVE-2019-16394)

    Guillaume Fahrner discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize input. A remote authenticated attacker     could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code on the host server. (CVE-2019-11071)

    Sylvain Lefevre discovered that SPIP incorrectly handled user authorization. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to modify and publish content and modify the database. (CVE-2019-16391)

    It was discovered that SPIP did not properly sanitize input. A remote attacker could, through cross-site     scripting (XSS) and PHP injection, exploit this to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. (CVE-2017-15736)

    Alexis Zucca discovered that SPIP incorrectly handled the media plugin. A remote authenticated attacker     could possibly use this issue to write to the database. (CVE-2019-19830)

    Christophe Laffont discovered that SPIP incorrectly handled redirect URLs. An attacker could use this     issue to cause SPIP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2019-16393)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It was discovered that SPIP, a website engine for publishing, would allow unauthenticated users to modify published content and write to the database, perform cross-site request forgeries, and enumerate registered users.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.17-2+deb8u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your spip 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.

It was discovered that SPIP, a website engine for publishing, would allow unauthenticated users to modify published content and write to the database, perform cross-site request forgeries, and enumerate registered users.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254030	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-16394	Nessus	Misc.	medium
140786	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : SPIP vulnerabilities (USN-4536-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
130348	Debian DLA-1975-1 : spip security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
129364	Debian DSA-4532-1 : spip - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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