Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-119 - XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.22.7, due to usernames on Special:PasswordReset being parsed as wikitext. The username on Special:PasswordReset can be supplied by anyone and will be parsed with wgRawHtml enabled. Since Special:PasswordReset is whitelisted by default on private wikis, this could potentially lead to an XSS crossing a privilege boundary.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:119
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : mediawiki
Date : June 10, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
Updated mediawiki packages fix security vulnerability:
XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.22.7, due to usernames on
Special:PasswordReset being parsed as wikitext. The username on
Special:PasswordReset can be supplied by anyone and will be parsed
with wgRawHtml enabled. Since Special:PasswordReset is whitelisted
by default on private wikis, this could potentially lead to an XSS
crossing a privilege boundary (CVE-2014-3966).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3966
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0253.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
ff6c87c0ca4184be601a11c11487b5a6 mbs1/x86_64/mediawiki-1.22.7-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
64e807f5fa514e1149b4bdf51433efb6 mbs1/x86_64/mediawiki-mysql-1.22.7-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
891e200fedb9c4eba765c824b2320346 mbs1/x86_64/mediawiki-pgsql-1.22.7-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
d80771e17bd538455da34534b3da2e28 mbs1/x86_64/mediawiki-sqlite-1.22.7-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
92c5c9e169e42307b700f97de6f23309 mbs1/SRPMS/mediawiki-1.22.7-1.mbs1.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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