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High DLA-2379-1 4 CVEs

mediawiki - security update

Published Sep 25, 2020 · Updated Mar 9, 2026

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian · 9 mediawiki 1:1.27.7-1~deb9u4

Vulnerabilities 4

  • High 7.5

    OATHAuth extension in MediaWiki is not implementing rate limit

    An issue was discovered in the OATHAuth extension in MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. For Wikis using OATHAuth on a farm/cluster (such as via CentralAuth), rate limiting of OATH tokens is only done on a single site level. Thus…

  • Medium 6.1

    MediaWiki Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

    In MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4, XSS related to jQuery can occur. The attacker creates a message with [javascript:payload xss] and turns it into a jQuery object with mw.message().parse(). The expected result is that the jQu…

  • Medium 6.1

    MediaWiki Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

    An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4. The non-jqueryMsg version of mw.message().parse() doesn't escape HTML. This affects both message contents (which are generally safe) and the parameters (which can be …

  • Medium 5.3

    MediaWiki Special:UserRights exposes the existence of hidden users

    In MediaWiki before 1.31.10 and 1.32.x through 1.34.x before 1.34.4, Special:UserRights exposes the existence of hidden users.