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Debian: CVE-2015-8622: mediawiki -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2015-8622: mediawiki -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/23/2017
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

Description

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!')."

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-mediawiki

References

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