Name: CVE-2021-42047: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2021-10-06T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2021-42047, CWE-79, CVSS 5.4, EPSS 0.00659

An issue was discovered in the Growth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. On any Wiki with the Mentor Dashboard feature enabled, users can login with a mentor account and trigger an XSS payload (such as alert) via Growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-no-js-fallback.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.4
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Mediawiki	—	Upgrade MediaWiki to the latest version	Oct 3, 2022	Sep 29, 2022

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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