An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.6, and 1.39.x before 1.39.3. An auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3540 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.6, and 1.39.x     before 1.39.3. An auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header. (CVE-2023-29141)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5447 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.10, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.6, and 1.39.x     before 1.39.3. An auto-block can occur for an untrusted X-Forwarded-For header. (CVE-2023-29141)

  - An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.11, 1.36.x through 1.38.x before 1.38.7, and 1.39.x     before 1.39.4. BlockLogFormatter.php in BlockLogFormatter allows XSS in the partial blocks feature.
    (CVE-2023-36675)

  - Mediawiki reports: (T335203, CVE-2023-29197) Upgrade guzzlehttp/psr7 to >= 1.9.1/2.4.5. (T335612,     CVE-2023-36674) Manualthumb bypasses badFile lookup. (T332889, CVE-2023-36675) XSS in BlockLogFormatter     due to unsafe message             use. (CVE-2023-36674)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-9d6ab5ebf2 advisory.

    https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-     announce@lists.wikimedia.org/message/6UQBHI5FWLATD7QO7DI4YS54U7XSSLAN/

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-567baef490 advisory.

    https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-     announce@lists.wikimedia.org/message/6UQBHI5FWLATD7QO7DI4YS54U7XSSLAN/

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
180100	Debian DLA-3540-1 : mediawiki - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
178014	Debian DSA-5447-1 : mediawiki - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
174365	Fedora 38 : mediawiki (2023-9d6ab5ebf2)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
174034	Fedora 37 : mediawiki (2023-567baef490)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

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