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Medium Public exploit CVE-2009-0260 EUVD-2022-3012GHSA-7hjm-hqgj-xv9fPYSEC-2026-670

MoinMoin Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities

Published Jan 23, 2009 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in action/AttachFile.py in MoinMoin before 1.8.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an AttachFile action to the WikiSandBox component with (1) the rename parameter or (2) the drawing parameter (aka the basename variable).

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 5.0 moin 1.7.1-3+lenny1 DTSA-187-1
Debian 4.0 moin 1.5.3-1.2etch2 DSA-1715-1

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI moin < 1.8.1 1.8.1 GHSA-7hjm-hqgj-xv9f

Advisories 2

References