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Fedora 43 : wordpress (2026-e0ebe50146)

high Nessus Plugin ID 366625

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-e0ebe50146 advisory.

 ## WordPress 6.9.10 Security Release

 Security updates included in this release

 - A stored XSS on the Comments administration page, exploitable via pending comments, reported by Thomas Chauchefoin at Trail of Bits
 - A DoS issue in the WP_Http::make_absolute_url() method, reported by Anthropic
 - A second-Order SQL injection in WordPress WXR export, reported by Anthropic
 - A weakness allowing Author role users to sticky posts, reported by Anthropic
 - Unauthenticated disclosure of comments on private & unpublished posts, reported by Ananda Dhakal from Patchstack
 - Imgur embeds are vulnerable to XSS, reported by Zhengyu Liu, Jingcheng Yang, and Gavin Zhong
 - Forgeable parameters passed to the {status}_{type} hook can lead to action name collision, reported by Alex Concha of the WordPress security team


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected wordpress package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-e0ebe50146

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 366625

File Name: fedora_2026-e0ebe50146.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2026

Updated: 10/16/2026

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/7/2026

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