PT-2019-3449

CVE-2019-12471

Published

2019-06-07

Updated

2022-05-24

Description by

CVSS 3.1

6.1

Medium

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions 1.30.0 through 1.32.1

Description The issue is related to the possibility of loading user JavaScript from a non-existent account, which allows anyone to create the account and perform cross-site scripting (XSS) on users loading that script. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to compromise data integrity.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions 1.30.0 through 1.32.1, update to version 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2, or 1.27.6 to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Bawolff

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

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

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