CVE-2014-2242
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.3 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
4.3CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
includes/upload/UploadBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 does not prevent use of invalid namespaces in SVG files, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an SVG upload, as demonstrated by use of a W3C XHTML namespace in conjunction with an IFRAME element.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
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/2014-February/000141.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.htmlPatch
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60771Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65910
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071135
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/7d923a6b53f7fbcb0cbc3a19797d741bf6f440eb%2Cn%2Cz