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CVE-2015-8622

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1, when is configured with a relative URL, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext, as demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named "javascript:alert('XSS!')."

Published

2017-03-23T20:59:00.437

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 6.1 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: MEDIUM
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact: NONE
Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-79
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application mediawiki mediawiki ≤ 1.23.11 Yes
Application mediawiki mediawiki 1.24.0 Yes
Application mediawiki mediawiki 1.24.1 Yes
Application mediawiki mediawiki 1.24.2 Yes
Application mediawiki mediawiki 1.24.3 Yes
Application mediawiki mediawiki 1.24.4 Yes
Application mediawiki mediawiki 1.25.0 Yes
Application mediawiki mediawiki 1.25.1 Yes
Application mediawiki mediawiki 1.25.2 Yes
Application mediawiki mediawiki 1.25.3 Yes
Application mediawiki mediawiki 1.26.0 Yes
References