PT-2017-5149 · Wikimedia · Mediawiki

Writ Keeper · Published 2017-10-26 · Updated 2017-10-31 · CVE-2012-4377

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: MediaWiki versions prior to 1.18.5 MediaWiki versions 1.19.x prior to 1.19.2

Description: A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a File: link to a nonexistent image. This occurs when an attacker crafts a link that appears to be a legitimate image file but actually contains malicious code.

Recommendations: For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.18.5, update to version 1.18.5 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.19.x prior to 1.19.2, update to version 1.19.2 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4377

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 14

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4377 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10 · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4377 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853409 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4377 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4377 · Vendor Advisory
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41700 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4377 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4377 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4377 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4377 · Note