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

    Multiple security issues were discovered in MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work, which     could result in cross-site scripting, a bypass of vandalism protections or information disclosure. For the     oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.35.11-1~deb11u1. For the     stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.39.4-1~deb12u1. We recommend     that you upgrade your mediawiki packages. For the detailed security status of mediawiki please refer to     its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/mediawiki

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

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

Detections

Analytics

Debian DSA-5447-1 : mediawiki - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 178014

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.1 Jan 24, 2025, 9:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202501242125
Version 1.0 Jul 6, 2023, 2:13 PM New Plugin Feed: 202307061413