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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2753-1 mediawiki -- information leak

Date Reported:

13 Sep 2013

Affected Packages:

mediawiki

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4302.

More information:

It was discovered that in Mediawiki, a wiki engine, several API modules allowed anti-CSRF tokens to be accessed via JSONP. These tokens protect against cross site request forgeries and are confidential.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.5-2squeeze6.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.19.5-1+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.19.8+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.