PT-2014-7887

CVE-2014-7295

Published

2014-10-07

Updated

2015-08-06

Description by

CVSS 2.0

3.5

Low

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.20 MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.12 MediaWiki versions 1.23.x prior to 1.23.5

Description The issue affects the Special:Preferences and Special:UserLogin pages in MediaWiki, allowing remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted CSS. This can be demonstrated by modifying MediaWiki:Common.css, which can lead to unspecified other impact.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.20, update to version 1.19.20 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.12, update to version 1.22.12 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.23.x prior to 1.23.5, update to version 1.23.5 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-2014-7295

ALT-PU-2014-2350

DSA-3046-1