It was discovered that in Mediawiki, a wiki engine, several API modules allowed anti-CSRF tokens to be accessed via JSONP. These tokens protect against cross site request forgeries and are confidential.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.15.5-2squeeze6. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.19.5-1+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.19.8+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your mediawiki packages.

MediaWiki is a wiki engine (a program for creating a collaboratively edited website). It is designed to handle heavy websites containing library-like document collections, and supports user uploads of images/sounds, multilingual content, TOC autogeneration, ISBN links, etc.

mediawiki on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2753.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25