PT-2017-18546 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Published 2017-11-15 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-8812

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaWiki versions prior to 1.27.4 MediaWiki versions 1.28.x prior to 1.28.3 MediaWiki versions 1.29.x prior to 1.29.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject > (greater than) characters via the id attribute of a headline.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.27.4, update to version 1.27.4 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.28.x prior to 1.28.3, update to version 1.28.3 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.29.x prior to 1.29.2, update to version 1.29.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2786

CVE-2017-8812

DSA-4036-1

MGASA-2017-0429

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 26

• 🔥 https://github.com/motikan2010/CVE-2017-8809_MediaWiki_RFD · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8812 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mediawiki · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8812 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0429.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0429 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8808 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8810 · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4036 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8812 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8812 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4036-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8811 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8815 · Security Note
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November/000216.html · Vendor Advisory