SCA: security update for mediawiki/core (GHSA-2rm7-xxx8-35jh)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433119

Description

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

- Wikimedia MediaWiki 1.30.0 through 1.32.1 has XSS. Loading user JavaScript from a non-existent account
allows anyone to create the account, and perform XSS on users loading that script. Fixed in 1.32.2,
1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6. (CVE-2019-12471)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2rm7-xxx8-35jh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433119

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/12/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12471

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12471

cwe: CWE-79