Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU31323

Cross-site scripting in MediaWiki - CVE-2017-0365

Published: April 13, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU31323

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-0365

CWE-ID: CWE-79

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: MediaWiki.org

Affected software:
MediaWiki

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 / 1.23.16 contains a XSS vulnerability in SearchHighlighter::highlightText() with non-default configurations.

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