Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting mediawiki package, versions <1:1.27.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-MEDIAWIKI-523440
  • published20 Apr 2017
  • disclosed20 Apr 2017

Introduced: 20 Apr 2017

CVE-2016-6334  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 mediawiki to version 1:1.27.1-1 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:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Parser::replaceInternalLinks2 method in MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving replacement of percent encoding in unclosed internal links.