PT-2017-7452 · Wikimedia+1 · Mediawiki+1

Matmarex · Published 2015-12-24 · Updated 2017-08-22 · CVE-2015-8622

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 1.23.12 MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.5 MediaWiki versions 1.25.x prior to 1.25.4 MediaWiki versions 1.26.x prior to 1.26.1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext when MediaWiki is configured with a relative URL. This can be demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named "javascript:alert('XSS!')".

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions prior to 1.23.12, update to version 1.23.12 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.24.x prior to 1.24.5, update to version 1.24.5 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.25.x prior to 1.25.4, update to version 1.25.4 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.26.x prior to 1.26.1, update to version 1.26.1 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2095

CVE-2015-8622

MGASA-2015-0486

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mediawiki

References · 53

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/mediawiki_syntaxhighlight.rb · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6335 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8624 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0361 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0369 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6334 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0368 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0365 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6333 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-02564 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12474 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6336 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8622 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6331 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0370 · Security Note