CVE-2017-8808

MEDIUM

MediaWiki < 1.27.4, 1.28.x < 1.28.3, 1.29.x < 1.29.2 - Cross-Site Scripting via Non-Standard URL Escaping

Title source: llm

Description

MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 has XSS when the $wgShowExceptionDetails setting is false and the browser sends non-standard URL escaping.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039812

Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November/000216.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4036

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0040

EPSS Percentile 61.0%

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 (8)

debian/debian_linux 9.0

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.28.0

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.28.1

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.28.2

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.29.0

mediawiki/mediawiki 1.29.1

mediawiki/mediawiki < 1.27.3

n/a/MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2

Published Nov 15, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026