Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title wordpress security update
Informations
Name DSA-3375 First vendor Publication 2015-10-19
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2015-10-19
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in Wordpress, the popular blogging engine.

CVE-2015-5714

A cross-site scripting vulnerability when processing shortcode tags has been discovered.

The issue has been fixed by not allowing unclosed HTML elements in attributes.

CVE-2015-5715

A vulnerability has been discovered, allowing users without proper permissions to publish private posts and make them sticky.

The issue has been fixed in the XMLRPC code of Wordpress by not allowing private posts to be sticky.

Other issue(s)

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in user list tables has been discovered.

The issue has been fixed by URL-escaping email addresses in those user lists.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed in later update.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u5.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.1+dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.1+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3375

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
67 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
33 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 500

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2015-09-17 IAVM : 2015-A-0219 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in WordPress
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0061403

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-03-14 wordpress kses bypass cross site scripting attempt
RuleID : 37019 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP
2016-03-14 wordpress kses bypass cross site scripting attempt
RuleID : 37018 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-11-29 Name : A web application running on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerab...
File : puppet_enterprise_421_470.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3383.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-20 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3375.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-321.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-28 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-15981.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-28 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-15982.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-28 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-15983.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-17 Name : The PHP application running on the remote web server is affected by multiple ...
File : wordpress_4_3_1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-16 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_f4ce64c25bd411e590403c970e169bc2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-11-04 09:25:45
  • Multiple Updates
2016-05-23 21:36:04
  • Multiple Updates
2016-05-22 09:37:48
  • Multiple Updates
2015-10-31 13:24:02
  • Multiple Updates
2015-10-21 13:24:04
  • Multiple Updates
2015-10-20 00:22:54
  • First insertion