CVE-2015-8622

MEDIUM

MediaWiki <1.23.12, 1.24.x <1.24.5, 1.25.x <1.25.4, 1.26.x <1.26.1 ...

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1, when is configured with a relative URL, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext, as demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named "javascript:alert('XSS!')."

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117899
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0030
EPSS Percentile 53.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (11)
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.24.0
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.24.1
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.24.2
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.24.3
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.24.4
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.25.0
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.25.1
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.25.2
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.25.3
mediawiki/mediawiki 1.26.0
... and 1 more
Published Mar 23, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026