PT-2015-5991 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Bawolff · Published 2015-04-13 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-2941

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 through 1.24.2

Description A cross-site scripting issue exists, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid parameter in a wddx format request to "api.php". This occurs because the error message is not properly handled when using HHVM, related to unsafe calls to wddx serialize value.

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 through 1.24.2, update to version 1.24.2 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "api.php" endpoint until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1935

CVE-2015-2941

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 40

• 🔥 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85851 · Exploit
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-2941 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8005 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2941 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2941 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6733 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2941 · Vendor Advisory
• 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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2942 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8009 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 · Vendor Advisory