Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in action/AttachFile.py in MoinMoin 1.8.2 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) an AttachFile sub-action in the error_msg function or (2) multiple vectors related to package file errors in the upload_form function, different vectors than CVE-2009-0260.

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

  - Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in action/AttachFile.py in MoinMoin 1.8.2 and earlier
    allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) an AttachFile sub-action in the
    error_msg function or (2) multiple vectors related to package file errors in the upload_form function,
    different vectors than CVE-2009-0260. (CVE-2009-1482)

Secunia reports :

Input passed via multiple parameters to action/AttachFile.py is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in the context of an affected site.

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize its input when attaching files, resulting in cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data, within the same domain.

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.

It was discovered that the AttachFile action in moin, a python clone of WikiWiki, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks when renaming attachements or performing other sub-actions.

The oldstable distribution (etch) is not vulnerable.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
432317	SCA: security update for moin (GHSA-4pfg-2frf-f67v)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
432317	SCA: security update for moin (GHSA-4pfg-2frf-f67v)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
38806	FreeBSD : moinmoin -- XSS vulnerabilities (bfe218a5-4218-11de-b67a-0030843d3802)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium
38741	Ubuntu 8.10 / 9.04 : moin vulnerability (USN-774-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
38696	Debian DSA-1791-1 : moin - insufficient input sanitising	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2009-1482

medium

Tenable Plugins

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medium