Cross-site scripting in MediaWiki - CVE-2013-6452
Published: May 12, 2014 / Updated: April 10, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41690
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-2013-6452
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 1.19.10, 1.2x before 1.21.4, and 1.22.x before 1.22.1. 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
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
mediawiki119
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6452
Install update from vendor's website.
mediawiki119 - addressed in versions 1.19.10-1.el6, 1.19.11-2.el5