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Fedora 20 : mediawiki-1.23.8-1.fc20 (2014-17228)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 80289

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- (bug T76686) [SECURITY] thumb.php outputs wikitext message as raw HTML, which could lead to xss. Permission to edit MediaWiki namespace is required to exploit this.\r\n* (bug T77028) [SECURITY] Malicious site can bypass CORS restrictions in $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains in API calls if it only included an allowed domain as part of its name.\r\n* (bug T74222) The original patch for T74222 was reverted as unnecessary.\r\n

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Solution

Update the affected mediawiki package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175828

http://www.nessus.org/u?871ede45

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 80289

File Name: fedora_2014-17228.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/30/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2014

Exploitable With

Elliot (MediaWiki thumb.php page Parameter Remote Shell Command Injection)

Reference Information

BID: 65003, 65223, 67068, 70238

FEDORA: 2014-17228