Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-17025

medium Nessus Plugin ID 369259

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- The Graphene theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Current location' and 'Author profile image URL' Profile Fields in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. (CVE-2026-17025)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 369259

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_17025.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/21/2026

Updated: 10/21/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 10.11

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-17025

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphene-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:graphene

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-17025

Detections

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