Fedora 11 : wordpress-2.8.3-1.fc11 (2009-8307)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40504

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to upstream version 2.8.3:
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/wordpress-2-8-3-security-rele ase/

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected wordpress package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ab4dc04

http://www.nessus.org/u?60b22638

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40504

File Name: fedora_2009-8307.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/7/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2009

Exploitable With

Elliot (WordPress 2.8.3 RCE)

Reference Information

BID: 35935

FEDORA: 2009-8307