CVE-2013-2031
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
MediaWiki before 1.19.6 and 1.20.x before 1.20.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by a CDATA section containing valid UTF-7 encoded sequences in a SVG file, which is then incorrectly interpreted as UTF-8 by Chrome and Firefox.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-April/000129.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-April/000129.htmlPatch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55433Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105784.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105825.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106293.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57472
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-21.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891