Cross-site scripting in MediaWiki - CVE-2014-7199
Published: September 30, 2014 / Updated: December 22, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41250
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7199
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.
An input validation error exists in MediaWiki before 1.19.19, 1.22.x before 1.22.11, and 1.23.x before 1.23.4. A remote authenticated 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
mediawiki
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
mediawiki119
mediawiki
How to mitigate CVE-2014-7199
Install update from vendor's website.
mediawiki119 - update to 1.19.20-1.el6
mediawiki - update to 1.23.4-1.fc21
mediawiki - update to 1.23.4-1.fc21
External References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61666
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3036
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/27/2
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69008
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/162777/
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-September/000161.html