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Fedora Extras : mediawiki-1.8.3-7 (2007-005)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62279

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

An XSS injection vulnerability was located in the AJAX support module, affecting MediaWiki 1.6.x and up when the optional setting $wgUseAjax is enabled.

There is no danger in the default configuration, with $wgUseAjax off.

 - Tue Jan 9 2007 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 1.8.3-7

 - Update to 1.8.3.

 - Update fixes an XSS injection vulnerability in the AJAX module.

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 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a5ba13f5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62279

File Name: fedora_extras_2007-005.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mediawiki, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/10/2007