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FreeBSD : mediawiki -- XSS vulnerability (c9c14242-6843-11dc-82b6-02e0185f8d72)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 26093

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The MediaWiki development team reports :

A possible HTML/XSS injection vector in the API pretty-printing mode has been found and fixed.

The vulnerability may be worked around in an unfixed version by simply disabling the API interface if it is not in use, by adding this to LocalSettings.php :

$wgEnableAPI = false;

(This is the default setting in 1.8.x.)

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?831471e8

http://www.nessus.org/u?c5d4cacd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 26093

File Name: freebsd_pkg_c9c14242684311dc82b602e0185f8d72.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 9/24/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mediawiki, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 9/21/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4828

CWE: 79