VULNERABILITY

MediaWiki: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2016-6334)

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MediaWiki: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2016-6334)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/20/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/24/2017
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • mediawiki-upgrade-latest

References

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