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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.62816
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 8 FEDORA-2008-10468 (wordpress)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to wordpress
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-10468.

Wordpress is an online publishing / weblog package that makes it very easy,
almost trivial, to get information out to people on the web.

Update Information:

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/
ChangeLog:

* Wed Nov 26 2008 Adrian Reber - 2.6.5-2
- updated to 2.6.5
* Fri Oct 24 2008 Adrian Reber - 2.6.3-1
- updated to 2.6.3
* Tue Sep 9 2008 Adrian Reber - 2.6.2-1
- updated to 2.6.2
* Sun Aug 24 2008 Adrian Reber - 2.6.1-1
- updated to 2.6.1
* Mon Jul 21 2008 Adrian Reber - 2.6-1
- updated to 2.6
* Sat Apr 26 2008 Adrian Reber - 2.5.1-1
- updated to 2.5.1 for security fixes - BZ 444396
* Fri Feb 8 2008 John Berninger - 2.3.3-0
- update to 2.3.3 for security fixes - BZ 431547
* Sun Dec 30 2007 Adrian Reber - 2.3.2-1
- updated to 2.3.2 (bz 426431, Draft Information Disclosure)
* Tue Oct 30 2007 Adrian Reber - 2.3.1-1
- updated to 2.3.1 (bz 357731, wordpress XSS issue)
* Mon Oct 15 2007 Adrian Reber - 2.3-1
- updated to 2.3
- disabled wordpress-core-update
References:

[ 1 ] Bug #473577 - CVE-2008-5278 wordpress, wordpress-mu: XSS vulnerability in RSS Feed Generator
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473577





Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update wordpress' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-10468

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
4.3

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5278
BugTraq ID: 32476
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32476
Bugtraq: 20081125 WordPress XSS vulnerability in RSS Feed Generator (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00176.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00000.html
http://osvdb.org/50214
http://secunia.com/advisories/32882
http://secunia.com/advisories/32966
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4662
XForce ISS Database: wordpress-feed-xss(46882)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46882
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