WordPress before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to poisoning of the cache of JSON GET requests because certain requests lack a Vary: Origin header.

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

  - WordPress before 5.2.4 is vulnerable to poisoning of the cache of JSON GET requests because certain     requests lack a Vary: Origin header. (CVE-2019-17673)

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

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform various Cross-Side Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks, create files on the server, disclose private information, create open redirects, poison cache, and bypass authorization access and input sanitation.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to perform various Cross-Side Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks, create open redirects, poison cache, and bypass authorization access and input sanitation.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256615	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-17673	Nessus	Misc.	high
136373	Debian DSA-4677-1 : wordpress - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
132736	Debian DSA-4599-1 : wordpress - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

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CVE-2019-17673

high

Tenable Plugins

high

critical

critical