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SCA: security update for mediawiki/core (GHSA-6h86-9r5g-f2h5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 431841

Description

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

 - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/actions/InfoAction.php in MediaWiki before 1.21.9 and
 1.22.x before 1.22.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sort key in an
 info action. (CVE-2014-2853)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6h86-9r5g-f2h5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 431841

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

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-2014-2853

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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2853

BID: 67068

cwe: CWE-79