Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3110-1 mediawiki -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 23 Dec 2014
- Affected Packages:
- mediawiki
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 773654.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-9475. - More information:
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A flaw was discovered in mediawiki, a wiki engine: thumb.php outputs wikitext messages as raw HTML, potentially leading to cross-site scripting (XSS).
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.