CVE-2014-2242
includes/upload/UploadBase.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 does not prevent use of invalid namespaces in SVG files, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.44%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
includes/upload/UploadBase.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 does not prevent use of invalid namespaces in SVG files, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an SVG upload, as demonstrated by use of a W3C XHTML namespace in conjunction with an IFRAME element.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.44% probability · 84th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- mediawiki/mediawiki
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65910
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071135
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60771Vendor Advisory
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/7d923a6b53f7fbcb0cbc3a19797d741bf6f440eb%2Cn%2Cz
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65910
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071135
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60771Vendor Advisory
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/7d923a6b53f7fbcb0cbc3a19797d741bf6f440eb%2Cn%2Cz
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.