CVE-2015-8622 — Cross-site Scripting in Mediawiki

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting5 documents5 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 46.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
MediawikiDebian Mediawiki
Timeline
PublishedMar 23
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1, when is configured with a relative URL, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext, as demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named "javascript:alert('XSS!')."

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/mediawiki< mediawiki 1:1.25.5-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianmediawiki/mediawiki< 1:1.25.5-1+3
▶NVDmediawiki/mediawiki1.23.11+10

Patches

Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: lists.wikimedia.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-p8m9-vcch-wc8g: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-8622: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1↗2017-03-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2015-8622: mediawiki - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x bef...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8622 CVE-2015-8623 CVE-2015-8624 CVE-2015-8625 CVE-2015-8626 CVE-2015-8627 CVE-2015-8628 mediawiki: multiple flaws fixed in 1.26.1, 1.25.4, 1.24.5, and 1.23.12↗2015-12-23
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