PT-2015-5983

CVE-2015-2933

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Published

2015-04-09

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Updated

2016-12-07

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 1.19.24 MediaWiki versions 1.20.x through 1.23.9 MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.2
Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the Html class of MediaWiki, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a LanguageConverter substitution string when using a language variant.
Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.24, update to version 1.19.24 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.20.x through 1.23.9, update to version 1.23.9 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.2, update to version 1.24.2 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-2015-2933
ALT-PU-2015-1935
MGASA-2015-0142
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