MediaWiki: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CVE-2021-42045)
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
09/29/2022
10/06/2022
10/05/2022
10/05/2022
Description
An issue was discovered in SecurePoll in the Growth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. Simple polls allow users to create alerts by changing their User-Agent HTTP header and submitting a vote.
Solution(s)
- mediawiki-upgrade-latest
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