CVE-2015-2941
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid parameter in a wddx format request to…
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Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.10%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid parameter in a wddx format request to api.php, which is not properly handled in an error message, related to unsafe calls to wddx_serialize_value.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.10% probability · 81th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- mediawiki/mediawiki
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85851Exploit
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/07/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73477
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85851Exploit
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.