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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703328
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3328-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'wordpress' package(s) announced via the DSA-3328-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'wordpress' package(s) announced via the DSA-3328-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities have been found in Wordpress, the popular blogging engine.

CVE-2015-3429

The file example.html in the Genericicons icon font package and twentyfifteen Wordpress theme allowed for cross site scripting.

CVE-2015-5622

The robustness of the shortcodes HTML tags filter has been improved. The parsing is a bit more strict, which may affect your installation.

CVE-2015-5623

A cross site scripting vulnerability allowed users with the Contributor or Author role to elevate their privileges.

The oldstable distribution (wheezy) is only affected by CVE-2015-5622. This less critical issue will be fixed at a later time.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.2.3+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'wordpress' package(s) on Debian 8.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-3429
BugTraq ID: 74534
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74534
Bugtraq: 20150507 Wordpress Twenty Fifteen Theme - DOM XSS Vulnerability - CVE-2015-3429 (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535486/100/1000/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-3328 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158278.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158271.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/May/41
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131802/WordPress-Twenty-Fifteen-4.2.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7965
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-site-from-the-genericons-example-html-xss-vulnerability
https://www.netsparker.com/cve-2015-3429-dom-xss-vulnerability-in-twenty-fifteen-wordpress-theme/
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-5623
BugTraq ID: 76011
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033037
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG

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