Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in profileinfo.php in MediaWiki before 1.15.5, when wgEnableProfileInfo is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filter parameter.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201206-09 (MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mediawiki. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    MediaWiki allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, to perform       imports from any wgImportSources wiki via a crafted POST request, to       conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks or obtain sensitive       information, to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, to conduct       clickjacking attacks, to execute arbitrary PHP code, to inject arbitrary       web script or HTML, to bypass intended access restrictions and to obtain       sensitive information.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update brings mediawiki to version 1.16.4, which is the latest stable release at the moment, but currently also the only supported and recommended release by the mediawiki developer community.

Further changes :

  - some simple wiki management functionality was added :

    - mw-createinstance <path> creates a wiki instance under       <path>, which is autoupgraded upon package updates.

  - any wiki path entered in /etc/mediawiki/instances will     be autoupgraded upon package updates.

  - /var/www/wiki is entered into this list automatically,     but you can remove it if you don't want this instance to     be autoupgraded.

  - opensearch and suggestions are enabled by default

    - several bug fixes (see changelog).

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.

This update brings mediawiki to version 1.16.2, which is the latest stable release at the moment, but currently also the only supported and recommended release by the mediawiki developer community.

Further changes :

  - some simple wiki management functionality was added :

    - mw-createinstance <path> creates a wiki instance under       <path>, which is autoupgraded upon package updates.

  - any wiki path entered in /etc/mediawiki/instances will     be autoupgraded upon package updates.

  - /var/www/wiki is entered into this list automatically,     but you can remove it if you don't want this instance to     be autoupgraded.

  - opensearch and suggestions are enabled by default

    - several bug fixes (see changelog).

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.

The version of MediaWiki running on the remote host is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability due to improper validation of user-supplied input to the 'filter' parameter in the 'profileinfo.php' script. A remote attacker can exploit this, by tricking a user into requesting a maliciously crafted URL, to execute arbitrary script code in the security context of the affected application.

Installations that have the 'wgEnableProfileInfo' setting disabled are not affected. This setting is disabled by default.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
59647	GLSA-201206-09 : MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
53609	Fedora 14 : mediawiki-1.16.4-58.fc14 (2011-5812)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
53608	Fedora 13 : mediawiki-1.16.4-58.fc13 (2011-5807)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
53567	Fedora 15 : mediawiki-1.16.4-58.fc15 (2011-5848)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
53521	Fedora 15 : mediawiki-1.16.4-57.fc15 (2011-5495)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
47902	MediaWiki profileinfo.php 'filter' Parameter XSS	Nessus	CGI abuses : XSS	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2010-2788

medium

Tenable Plugins

high

medium

medium

medium

medium

low