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CVE-2014-2242

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
02/03/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

includes/upload/UploadBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 does not prevent use of invalid namespaces in SVG files, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an SVG upload, as demonstrated by use of a W3C XHTML namespace in conjunction with an IFRAME element.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.19.11 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.10.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.10.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.11.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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