Fedora 21 : mediawiki-1.24.1-1.fc21 (2014-17278)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80297

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- (bug T76686) [SECURITY] thumb.php outputs wikitext message as raw HTML, which could lead to xss. Permission to edit MediaWiki namespace is required to exploit this.\r\n* (bug T77028) [SECURITY] Malicious site can bypass CORS restrictions in $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains in API calls if it only included an allowed domain as part of its name.\r\n* (bug T74222) The original patch for T74222 was reverted as unnecessary.\r\n* Fixed a couple of entries in RELEASE-NOTES-1.24.\r\n* (bug T76168) OutputPage: Add accessors for some protected properties.\r\n* (bug T74834) Make 1.24 branch directly installable under PostgreSQL.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mediawiki package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175828

http://www.nessus.org/u?650abdc4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80297

File Name: fedora_2014-17278.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/30/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2014

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2014-17278