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CVE-2021-42044

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.8 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
4.8CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Mentor dashboard in the GrowthExperiments extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The Growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-add-filter-total-edits-headline, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-add-filter-starred-headline, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-info-text, growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-info-legend-headline, and growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-active-ago MediaWiki messages were not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredHigh
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/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: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I858d55fb2eca9b50ac6ef5a6f2a7b2784f0fa0d6 ↗