CVE-2014-2244

MediaWiki <1.19.12, <1.20.x, <1.21.6, <1.22.3 - XSS

Title source: llm

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the formatHTML function in includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string located after http:// in the text parameter to api.php.

References (7)

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071139

[Vendor Advisory] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61362

[Various Sources] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/Idf985e4e69c2f11778a8a90503914678441cb3fb%2Cn%2Cz

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65906

[Mailing List] http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1

[Mailing List] http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2

Scores

EPSS 0.0046

EPSS Percentile 63.6%

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (50)

mediawiki/mediawiki < 1.19.11

mediawiki/mediawiki

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mediawiki/mediawiki

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Published Mar 02, 2014

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026