PT-2014-4578 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Published 2014-03-02 · Updated 2016-04-04 · CVE-2014-2242

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.12 MediaWiki versions 1.20.x MediaWiki versions 1.21.x prior to 1.21.6 MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an SVG upload. This is demonstrated by the use of a W3C XHTML namespace in conjunction with an IFRAME element, which can be used to inject malicious code.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.12, update to version 1.19.12 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.20.x, update to a version outside of the 1.20.x range, such as 1.19.12 or 1.21.6 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.21.x prior to 1.21.6, update to version 1.21.6 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.3, update to version 1.22.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1286

CVE-2014-2242

MGASA-2014-0124

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 24

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0124.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2242 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2242 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1286 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2242 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2244 · Security Note
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2242 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-2242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60771 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0124 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2243 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2242 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2242 · Security Note