{"id":"CVE-2014-2242","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2014-2242","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:05:40.224Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2014-03-02T04:57:26.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:06:17.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["mediawiki/mediawiki"],"epss":{"score":0.02441,"percentile":0.84191,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.44%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65910","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071135","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60771","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/7d923a6b53f7fbcb0cbc3a19797d741bf6f440eb%2Cn%2Cz","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65910","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071135","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60771","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/7d923a6b53f7fbcb0cbc3a19797d741bf6f440eb%2Cn%2Cz","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2242","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}