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Fedora 26 : wordpress (2017-6fd6877975)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104600

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to wordpress 4.8.3. See:
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/10/wordpress-4-8-3-security-release/ for details

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-2017-6fd6877975

https://wordpress.org/news/2017/10/wordpress-4-8-3-security-release/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104600

File Name: fedora_2017-6fd6877975.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2017

Reference Information