CVE-2014-2853

Mediawiki < 1.21.8 - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/actions/InfoAction.php in MediaWiki before 1.21.9 and 1.22.x before 1.22.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sort key in an info action.

References (9)

[Various Sources] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-April/000149.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/58262

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030161

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091967

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63251

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21#Changes_since_1.21.8

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22#Changes_since_1.22.5

[Patch] https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/commit/0b695ae09aada343ab59be4a3c9963995a1143b6

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67068

Scores

EPSS 0.0045

EPSS Percentile 63.6%

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (50)

mediawiki/mediawiki < 1.21.8

mediawiki/mediawiki

... and 40 more

Published Apr 29, 2014

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026