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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-30154

On Special:NewFiles, all the mediastatistics-header-* messages are output in HTML unescaped, leading to XSS.

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.31%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.31%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.31.12 and 1.32.x through 1.35.x before 1.35.2. On Special:NewFiles, all the mediastatistics-header-* messages are output in HTML unescaped, leading to XSS.

CVSS 3.1
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
1.31% probability · 69th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
mediawiki/mediawiki · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora
Source
cve@mitre.org

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