Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-2957 mediawiki - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
Omer Iqbal discovered that Mediawiki, a wiki engine, parses invalidusernames on Special:PasswordReset as wikitext when $wgRawHtml isenabled. On such wikis this allows an unauthenticated attacker toinsert malicious JavaScript, a cross site scripting attack.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2957