Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MoinMoin before 1.5.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the page info, or the page name in a (2) AttachFile, (3) RenamePage, or (4) LocalSiteMap action.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MoinMoin before 1.5.7 allow remote attackers to
    inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the page info, or the page name in a (2) AttachFile, (3)
    RenamePage, or (4) LocalSiteMap action. (CVE-2007-0857)

MoinMoin Security advisory

XSS issue in login action

XSS issue in AttachFile action

XSS issue in RenamePage/DeletePage action

XSS issue in gui editor

A flaw was discovered in MoinMoin's page name sanitizer which could lead to a cross-site scripting attack. By tricking a user into viewing a crafted MoinMoin page, an attacker could execute arbitrary JavaScript as the current MoinMoin user, possibly exposing the user's authentication information for the domain where MoinMoin was hosted.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
434172	SCA: security update for moin (GHSA-m84w-vgwf-p893)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
434172	SCA: security update for moin (GHSA-m84w-vgwf-p893)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
31184	FreeBSD : moinmoin -- multiple vulnerabilities (f113bbeb-e3ac-11dc-bb89-000bcdc1757a)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	Local	high
28013	Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : moin, moin1.3 vulnerability (USN-421-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	medium

Detections

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CVE-2007-0857

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

high

medium