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Fedora 32 : wordpress (2020-8447a3e195)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137734

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

**WordPress 5.4.2 Security and Maintenance Release**

This security and maintenance release features 23 fixes and enhancements. Plus, it adds a number of security fixes—see the list below.

These bugs affect WordPress versions 5.4.1 and earlier; version 5.4.2 fixes them, so you’ll want to upgrade.

**Security Updates**

WordPress versions 5.4 and earlier are affected by the following bugs, which are fixed in version 5.4.2. If you haven’t yet updated to 5.4, there are also updated versions of 5.3 and earlier that fix the security issues.

 - Props to Sam Thomas (jazzy2fives) for finding an XSS issue where authenticated users with low privileges are able to add JavaScript to posts in the block editor.

 - Props to Luigi – (gubello.me) for discovering an XSS issue where authenticated users with upload permissions are able to add JavaScript to media files.

 - Props to Ben Bidner of the WordPress Security Team for finding an open redirect issue in wp_validate_redirect().

 - Props to Nrimo Ing Pandum for finding an authenticated XSS issue via theme uploads.

 - Props to Simon Scannell of RIPS Technologies for finding an issue where set-screen-option can be misused by plugins leading to privilege escalation.

 - Props to Carolina Nymark for discovering an issue where comments from password-protected posts and pages could be displayed under certain conditions.

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-2020-8447a3e195

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137734

File Name: fedora_2020-8447a3e195.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/23/2020

Updated: 3/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-4050

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-4047

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:32

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-4046, CVE-2020-4047, CVE-2020-4048, CVE-2020-4049, CVE-2020-4050

FEDORA: 2020-8447a3e195

IAVA: 2020-A-0266-S