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CVE-2017-5934

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-10-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the link dialogue in GUI editor in MoinMoin before 1.9.10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Moinmoin: before 1.9.10 — fixed in 1.9.10
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 42.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Moinmoin 1.9.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-10/msg00024.html
• http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
• https://github.com/moinwiki/moin-1.9/commit/70955a8eae091cc88fd9a6e510177e70289ec024
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00007.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3794-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4318
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-10/msg00024.html
• http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
• https://github.com/moinwiki/moin-1.9/commit/70955a8eae091cc88fd9a6e510177e70289ec024
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00007.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3794-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4318

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