#VU85559 Cross-site scripting in MediaWiki - CVE-2024-23174
Published: January 18, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU85559
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-23174
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
MediaWiki
MediaWiki
Software vendor:
MediaWiki.org
MediaWiki.org
Description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the PageTriage extension. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in 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.
The following messages are affected:
- rev-deleted-user
- pagetriage-tags-quickfilter-label
- pagetriage-triage
- pagetriage-filter-date-range-format-placeholder
- pagetriage-filter-date-range-to
- pagetriage-filter-date-range-from
- pagetriage-filter-date-range-heading
- pagetriage-filter-set-button
- pagetriage-filter-reset-button
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.