The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5520 advisory.

    Multiple security issues were discovered in MediaWiki, a website engine for collaborative work, which     could result in cross-site scripting, denial of service or information disclosure For the oldstable     distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.35.13-1~deb11u1. For the stable     distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.39.5-1~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.

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Debian DSA-5520-1 : mediawiki - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 182866

Version 1.6