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CVE-2014-3966

LOW severity · CVSS 2.6 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
2.6CVSS LOW

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Special:PasswordReset in MediaWiki before 1.19.16, 1.21.x before 1.21.10, and 1.22.x before 1.22.7, when wgRawHtml is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid username.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityHigh
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%

AV:N/AC:H/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-May/000151.html ↗