Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.19.6-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-MEDIAWIKI-370437
  • published18 Nov 2013
  • disclosed18 Nov 2013

Introduced: 18 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-2031  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 mediawiki to version 1:1.19.6-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki package and not the mediawiki package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

MediaWiki before 1.19.6 and 1.20.x before 1.20.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by a CDATA section containing valid UTF-7 encoded sequences in a SVG file, which is then incorrectly interpreted as UTF-8 by Chrome and Firefox.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1