PT-2018-5124

CVE-2017-0365

Published

2017-04-16

Updated

2018-05-14

Description by

CVSS 3.1

4.7

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.28.1 MediaWiki versions prior to 1.27.2 MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.16

Description The issue is related to a XSS vulnerability in the highlightText() function of the SearchHighlighter class, which occurs with non-default configurations.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.28.1, update to version 1.28.1 or later. For versions prior to 1.27.2, update to version 1.27.2 or later. For versions prior to 1.23.16, update to version 1.23.16 or later.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

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

Related identifiers

CVE-2017-0365

ALT-PU-2017-2095