Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the link dialogue in GUI editor in MoinMoin before 1.9.10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

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

  - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the link dialogue in GUI editor in MoinMoin before 1.9.10
    allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2017-5934)

This update for moinmoin-wiki to version 1.9.10 fixes the following security issue :

  - CVE-2017-5934: Cross-site scripting vulnerability in the     GUI editor (boo#1111104)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3794-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that MoinMoin incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to access sensitive information.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Nitin Venkatesh discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in moin, a Python clone of WikiWiki. A remote attacker can conduct cross-site scripting attacks via the GUI editor's link dialogue. This only affects installations which have set up fckeditor (not enabled by default).

Nitin Venkatesh discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in moin, a Python clone of WikiWiki. A remote attacker can conduct cross-site scripting attacks via the GUI editor's link dialogue. This only affects installations which have set up fckeditor (not enabled by default).

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.8-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your moin packages.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
422501	SCA: security update for moin (GHSA-42fp-4hm3-j8r7)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
422501	SCA: security update for moin (GHSA-42fp-4hm3-j8r7)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
123169	openSUSE Security Update : moinmoin-wiki (openSUSE-2019-355)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
118176	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : MoinMoin vulnerability (USN-3794-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
118121	Debian DSA-4318-1 : moin - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
118120	Debian DLA-1546-1 : moin security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
118111	openSUSE Security Update : moinmoin-wiki (openSUSE-2018-1145)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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