PT-2015-5983 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Bawolff · Published 2015-04-09 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-2933

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 1.19.24 MediaWiki versions 1.20.x through 1.23.9 MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.2

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the Html class of MediaWiki, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a LanguageConverter substitution string when using a language variant.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.19.24, update to version 1.19.24 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.20.x through 1.23.9, update to version 1.23.9 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.2, update to version 1.24.2 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1935

CVE-2015-2933

MGASA-2015-0142

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 45

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6728 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2932 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2931 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8005 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-2933 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2933 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6733 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2938 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8001 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:200 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2942 · Security Note
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-March/000175.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2933 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8009 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0142 · Vendor Advisory