Cross-site scripting in MediaWiki - CVE-2013-6451
Published: January 28, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30400
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6451
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in MediaWiki 1.19.9 before 1.19.10, 1.2x before 1.21.4, and 1.22.x before 1.22.1. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Affected software
MediaWiki
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
mediawiki119
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
mediawiki119
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6451
Update to version 1.22.1.
MediaWiki - update to 1.22.1
mediawiki119 - addressed in versions 1.19.10-1.el6, 1.19.11-2.el5
mediawiki119 - addressed in versions 1.19.10-1.el6, 1.19.11-2.el5