PT-2015-5988 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Bawolff · Published 2015-04-09 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-2938

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 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a custom JavaScript file. This occurs because the file is not properly handled when previewing it.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.19.24, update to version 1.19.24 or later. For versions 1.20.x through 1.23.9, update to version 1.23.9 or later. For 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-2015-2938

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
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2938 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8005 · Security Note
• 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
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2938 · Vendor Advisory
• 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
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2938 · Security Note
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0142 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8009 · Security Note