Debian DLA-1096-1 : wordpress-shibboleth security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 103197

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a an XSS vulnerability in the login form of the 'Shibboleth' identity provider module for Wordpress.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in wordpress-shibboleth version 1.4-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress-shibboleth 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-shibboleth package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/09/msg00013.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 103197

File Name: debian_DLA-1096.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/14/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/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-shibboleth, 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: 9/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14313