PT-2019-6942 · Wikimedia · Mediawiki

Bzimport · Published 2013-09-13 · Updated 2019-12-19 · CVE-2013-4303

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 1.19.x through 1.19.7 MediaWiki versions 1.20.x through 1.20.6 MediaWiki versions 1.21.x through 1.21.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This is achieved via the siprop parameter in a query action to "wiki/api.php". The problem arises when there is an even number of "." (period) characters in a string, which is not properly detected by the MediaWiki API.

Recommendations For MediaWiki versions 1.19.x through 1.19.7, update to version 1.19.8 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.20.x through 1.20.6, update to version 1.20.7 or later. For MediaWiki versions 1.21.x through 1.21.1, update to version 1.21.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4303

MGASA-2013-0276

Affected Products

Mediawiki

References · 19

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52746 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0276 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4303 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4303 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4303 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4303 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4303 · Security Note
• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-September/000133.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0276.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4303 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4303 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4303 · Note
• https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.20 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86897 · Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/553 · Note