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Debian 11 MediaWiki Important Security Advisory DLA-4249-1 CVE-2025-3469

debian lts
Calendar Grey July 23, 2025
Dist Debian Esm H88
Numerous vulnerabilities in MediaWiki pose threats of data breaches and unauthorized privilege increases; prompt updates advised.
Multiple security vulnerabilities were found in mediawiki, a website engine for collaborative work, that could lead to information disclosure or privilege escalation

Summary

CVE-2025-3469

User input was not properly sanitized during web page generation,
which could lead to information disclosure or privilege escalation
via Cross-site Scripting.

CVE-2025-6590

User input was not sanitized in the password reset form, which could lead
to information disclosure for private pages via transclusion.

CVE-2025-6591

HTML injection in API `action=feedcontributions` output from i18n
messages.

CVE-2025-6593

"{{SITENAME}} registered email address has been changed" email was
sent to unverified email addresses, which could lead to information
disclosure.

CVE-2025-6594

XSS in Special:ApiSandbox. While the known issue is not exploitable
in ≤1.39, the backported changes provide some security hardening
just in case.

CVE-2025-6595

Stored XSS through system messages in MultimediaViewer.

CVE-2025-6597

Autocreation was treated as login for the purposes of security
reauthentication. However it doesn't necessarily involve real-time

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Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.35.13-1+deb11u4
CVE ID: CVE-2025-3469 CVE-2025-6590 CVE-2025-6591 CVE-2025-6593

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