PT-2015-7327 · Mediawiki · Mediawiki Widgets Extension

John Menerick · Published 2015-09-01 · Updated 2016-12-07 · CVE-2015-6737

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 Widgets extension (affected versions not specified)

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue in the Widgets extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving base64 encoded content.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-6737

Affected Products

Mediawiki Widgets Extension

References · 7

• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201510-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6737 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/76858 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6 · Note