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SCA: security update for mediawiki/core (GHSA-7hwr-f745-5rwq)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 431874

Description

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

 - In MediaWiki through 1.33.0, Special:Redirect allows information disclosure of suppressed usernames via a
 User ID Lookup. (CVE-2019-16738)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7hwr-f745-5rwq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 431874

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16738

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16738