MediaWiki Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6842

Synopsis

The remote web server is running a PHP application that is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

The remote web server is running MediaWiki.

The application is prone to an arbitrary file-upload vulnerability because it fails to adequately validate files before uploading them to the vulnerable server. An attacker can exploit this issue to upload a chunk file through API.

Solution

Upgrade to MediaWiki version 1.20.6, 1.19.7, or higher.

See Also

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48306

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.20

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 6842

Family: CGI

Published: 5/28/2013

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 66841

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mediawiki:mediawiki

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2114

BID: 60077