Debian DLA-56-1 : wordpress security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 82202

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple security issues have been discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool, resulting in denial of service or information disclosure.

More information can be found in the upstream advisory at https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected wordpress, and wordpress-l10n packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/09/msg00013.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/wordpress

https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82202

File Name: debian_DLA-56.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress-l10n, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2053, CVE-2014-5204, CVE-2014-5205, CVE-2014-5240, CVE-2014-5265, CVE-2014-5266

BID: 66225, 69096, 69146