CVE-2021-41798

published 2021-10-11

CVE-2021-41798: MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows XSS. Month related MediaWiki messages are not escaped before being used on the Special:Search results page.

Priority P4 24 medium 6.1 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI R S C C L I L A N

MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows XSS. Month related MediaWiki messages are not escaped before being used on the Special:Search results page.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	mediawiki	< mediawiki 1:1.35.4-1 (bookworm)	mediawiki 1:1.35.4-1 (bookworm)
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
mediawiki	mediawiki	< 1.36.2	1.36.2
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.35.4-1~deb11u1	1:1.35.4-1~deb11u1
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.35.4-1	1:1.35.4-1
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.35.4-1	1:1.35.4-1
mediawiki	mediawiki	>= 0 < 1:1.35.4-1	1:1.35.4-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.1 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 6.1 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 6.1 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 6.1 MEDIUM

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