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SCA: security update for mediawiki/core (GHSA-mqhw-wq8p-vf5r)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434162

Description

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

 - resources/src/mediawiki.page.ready/ready.js in MediaWiki before 1.35 allows remote attackers to force a
 logout and external redirection via HTML content in a MediaWiki page. (CVE-2020-10959)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mqhw-wq8p-vf5r

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434162

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

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: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10959

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10959

cwe: CWE-601