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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

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…

MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 2.10%

Does this matter?

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

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.