PT-2014-4920 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Pleasestand · Published 2014-04-28 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2014-2853

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 1.21.9 MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.6

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sort key in an info action. This occurs due to insufficient input validation in the includes/actions/InfoAction.php file.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.21.9, update to version 1.21.9 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.6, update to version 1.22.6 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1960

CVE-2014-2853

GHSA-6H86-9R5G-F2H5

MGASA-2014-0197

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 21

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3966 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2853 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2853 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2665 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6h86-9r5g-f2h5 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/58262 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22#Changes_since_1.22.5 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21#Changes_since_1.21.8 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0197 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0197.html · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1960 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/commit/0b695ae09aada343ab59be4a3c9963995a1143b6 · Note
• https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki · Note
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-April/000149.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/67068 · Note