vulnerability
MediaWiki: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2024-34500)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) | May 5, 2024 | Jun 13, 2025 | Jun 13, 2025 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 5, 2024
Added
Jun 13, 2025
Modified
Jun 13, 2025
Description
An issue was discovered in the UnlinkedWikibase extension in MediaWiki before 1.39.6, 1.40.x before 1.40.2, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. XSS can occur through an interface message. Error messages (in the $err var) are not escaped before being passed to Html::rawElement() in the getError() function in the Hooks class.
Solutions
mediawiki-upgrade-1_39_6mediawiki-upgrade-1_40_2mediawiki-upgrade-1_41_1
References
- CVE-2024-34500
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-34500
- URL-https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UnlinkedWikibase/+/1002175
- URL-https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FU2FGUXXK6TMV6R52VRECLC6XCSQQISY/
- URL-https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357203
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