PT-2014-7887 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Helder + 1 · Published 2014-10-07 · Updated 2015-08-06 · CVE-2014-7295

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.5

Low

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.20 MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.12 MediaWiki versions 1.23.x prior to 1.23.5

Description The issue affects the Special:Preferences and Special:UserLogin pages in MediaWiki, allowing remote authenticated users to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted CSS. This can be demonstrated by modifying MediaWiki:Common.css, which can lead to unspecified other impact.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.20, update to version 1.19.20 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.22.x prior to 1.22.12, update to version 1.22.12 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.23.x prior to 1.23.5, update to version 1.23.5 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2350

CVE-2014-7295

DSA-3046-1

MGASA-2014-0400

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 21

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7295 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7295 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7295 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7199 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-7295 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2350 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0400.html · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70672 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0400 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3046 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3036 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7295 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3046 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7295 · Note
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-October/000163.html · Note