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Gentoo: GLSA-200709-11 Moderate Severity: MediaWiki XSS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2007
Scroller Gentoo
Uncover a security loophole in PhpWiki for Gentoo, affecting user access and system integrity. Urgent upgrade advised.
A vulnerability has been discovered in PhpWiki authentication mechanism.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: PhpWiki: Authentication bypass Date: September 18, 2007 Bugs: #181692 ID: 200709-10

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in PhpWiki authentication mechanism.
Background ========= PhpWiki is an application that creates a web site where anyone can edit the pages through HTML forms.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/phpwiki < 1.3.14 >= 1.3.14
========== The PhpWiki development team reported an authentication error within the file lib/WikiUser/LDAP.php when binding to an LDAP server with an empty password.
Impact ===== A remot...

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