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Fedora 7 : mediawiki-1.9.4-35.fc7 (2007-2189)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27755

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.9.4 to fix cross site scripting vulnerability in API pretty-printing mode.

More info: http://secunia.com/advisories/26772/

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mediawiki and / or mediawiki-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=287881

http://www.nessus.org/u?9208ca2a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27755

File Name: fedora_2007-2189.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4828

BID: 25632

CWE: 79

FEDORA: 2007-2189

Secunia: 26772