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Fedora 25 : wordpress (2017-e02ec160d8)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96681

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

**WordPress 4.7.1** Security and Maintenance Release

This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

WordPress versions 4.7 and earlier are affected by eight security issues :

 - Remote code execution (RCE) in PHPMailer – No specific issue appears to affect WordPress or any of the major plugins we investigated but, out of an abundance of caution, we updated PHPMailer in this release. This issue was reported to PHPMailer by Dawid Golunski and Paul Buonopane.

 - The REST API exposed user data for all users who had authored a post of a public post type. WordPress 4.7.1 limits this to only post types which have specified that they should be shown within the REST API. Reported by Krogsgard and Chris Jean.

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) via the plugin name or version header on update-core.php. Reported by Dominik Schilling of the WordPress Security Team.

 - Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bypass via uploading a Flash file. Reported by Abdullah Hussam.

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) via theme name fallback.
 Reported by Mehmet Ince.

 - Post via email checks mail.example.com if default settings aren’t changed. Reported by John Blackbourn of the WordPress Security Team.

 - A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) was discovered in the accessibility mode of widget editing. Reported by Ronnie Skansing.

 - Weak cryptographic security for multisite activation key. Reported by Jack.

Thank you to the reporters for practicing responsible disclosure.

In addition to the security issues above, WordPress 4.7.1 fixes 62 bugs from 4.7. For more information, see the [release notes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1) or consult the [list of changes](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?milestone=4.7.1).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-e02ec160d8

https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.1

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?milestone=4.7.1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96681

File Name: fedora_2017-e02ec160d8.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2017

Reference Information