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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106784
Category:Web application abuses
Title:MediaWiki Multiple Vulnerabilities (Aug 2016) - Windows
Summary:MediaWiki is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Description:Summary:
MediaWiki is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Insight:
The following flaws exist:

- ApiParse allows remote attackers to bypass intended per-title read restrictions via a parse action to api.php.
(CVE-2016-6331)

- Remote attackers may obtain sensitive information by leveraging failure to terminate sessions when a user
account is blocked and when $wgBlockDisablesLogin is true. (CVE-2016-6332)

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CSS user subpage preview feature allows remote attackers to
inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the edit box in Special:MyPage/common.css. (CVE-2016-6333)

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Parser::replaceInternalLinks2 method allows remote attackers to
inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving replacement of percent encoding in unclosed internal
links. (CVE-2016-6334)

- MediaWiki does not generate head items in the context of a given title, which allows remote attackers to obtain
sensitive information via a parse action to api.php. (CVE-2016-6335)

- Remote authenticated users with undelete permissions may bypass intended suppressrevision and deleterevision
restrictions and remove the revision deletion status of arbitrary file revisions by using Special:Undelete.
(CVE-2016-6336)

- Remote attackers may bypass intended session access restrictions by leveraging a call to the UserGetRights
function after Session::getAllowedUserRights. (CVE-2016-6337)

Affected Software/OS:
MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.15, 1.26.x prior to 1.26.4 and
1.27.x prior to 1.27.1.

Solution:
Update to version 1.23.15, 1.26.4, 1.27.1 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6331
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6332
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6333
BugTraq ID: 98053
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98053
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6334
BugTraq ID: 98057
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98057
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6335
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6336
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6337
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