VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-6334
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Parser::replaceInternalLinks2 method in MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving…
MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.12%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.12%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Parser::replaceInternalLinks2 method in MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving replacement of percent encoding in unclosed internal links.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.12% probability · 64th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- mediawiki/mediawiki
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98057
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613Issue Tracking
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.htmlMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137264Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98057
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613Issue Tracking
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.htmlMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137264Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.