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Fedora 11 : wordpress-2.8.3-2.fc11 (2009-8468)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40566

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

security update to fix 'Remote admin reset password':
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-August/070137.
html

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. 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

http://www.nessus.org/u?e1213e92

http://www.nessus.org/u?f93528b8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40566

File Name: fedora_2009-8468.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2009

Reference Information

BID: 36014

FEDORA: 2009-8468