VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-30157
On ChangesList special pages such as Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist, some of the rcfilters-filter-* label messages are output in HTML unescaped, leading to XSS.
MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.41%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.41%). 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 ChangesList special pages such as Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist, some of the rcfilters-filter-* label 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
- 1.41% probability · 71th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- mediawiki/mediawiki · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/26UJGHF7LJDOCQN6A3Z4PM7PYRKENJHE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OMSV7B2TCFBOCICN3B4SMQP5HVRJQIT/
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278058Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/26UJGHF7LJDOCQN6A3Z4PM7PYRKENJHE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2OMSV7B2TCFBOCICN3B4SMQP5HVRJQIT/
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T278058Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-40Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4889Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.