CVE-2015-2941 — Cross-site Scripting in Mediawiki

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting4 documents4 sources

Severity

4.3MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

0.3%

top 48.51%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Mediawiki Debian Mediawiki

Timeline

PublishedApr 13

Latest updateMay 17

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid parameter in a wddx format request to api.php, which is not properly handled in an error message, related to unsafe calls to wddx_serialize_value.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/mediawiki< mediawiki 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3 (bookworm)

▶Debianmediawiki/mediawiki< 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3+3

▶NVDmediawiki/mediawiki1.19.23+48

Patches

Patch: lists.wikimedia.org ↗Patch: lists.wikimedia.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-rx5p-cg3p-x43g: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1↗2022-05-17

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OSV

CVE-2015-2941: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1↗2015-04-13

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📋Vendor Advisories

Debian

CVE-2015-2941: mediawiki - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x befor...↗2015

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