PT-2014-4920

CVE-2014-2853

Published

2014-04-28

Updated

2022-05-17

Description by

CVSS 2.0

4.3

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.21.9 MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.6

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sort key in an info action. This occurs due to insufficient input validation in the includes/actions/InfoAction.php file.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.21.9, update to version 1.21.9 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.6, update to version 1.22.6 or later.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (\'Cross-site Scripting\')

Related identifiers

CVE-2014-2853

GHSA-6H86-9R5G-F2H5

ALT-PU-2014-1960