CVE-2022-34911
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.1 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
6.1CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.7, 1.36.x and 1.37.x before 1.37.3, and 1.38.x before 1.38.1. XSS can occur in configurations that allow a JavaScript payload in a username. After account creation, when it sets the page title to "Welcome" followed by the username, the username is not escaped: SpecialCreateAccount::successfulAction() calls ::showSuccessPage() with a message as second parameter, and OutputPage::setPageTitle() uses text().
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308471Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.htmlAdvisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7N5ZBWLNNPZKFK7Q4KEHGCJ2YELQEUJP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKKOQXPYLMBSEVDHFS32BPBR3ZQJKY5B/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246Advisory