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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3110-1 (mediawiki - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
A flaw was discovered in mediawiki, a wiki engine: thumb.php outputs wikitext messages as raw HTML, potentially leading to cross-site scripting (XSS).
Insight
Insight
MediaWiki is a wiki engine (a program for creating a collaboratively edited website). It is designed to handle heavy websites containing library-like document collections, and supports user uploads of images/sounds, multilingual content, TOC autogeneration, ISBN links, etc.
Affected Software
Affected Software
mediawiki on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.19.20+dfsg-0+deb7u3 this version additionally fixes a regression introduced in the previous release, DSA-3100-1. For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.2. We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.