PT-2015-5988

CVE-2015-2938

Published

2015-04-09

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 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a custom JavaScript file. This occurs because the file is not properly handled when previewing it.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.19.24, update to version 1.19.24 or later. For versions 1.20.x through 1.23.9, update to version 1.23.9 or later. For versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.2, update to version 1.24.2 or later.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Bawolff

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

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

Related identifiers

CVE-2015-2938

ALT-PU-2015-1935