vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-8808: mediawiki -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 15, 2017
Added
Dec 5, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 has XSS when the $wgShowExceptionDetails setting is false and the browser sends non-standard URL escaping.

Solution

debian-upgrade-mediawiki
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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