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CVE-2015-8622

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
23/03/2017
Last modified:
20/04/2025

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1, when is configured with a relative URL, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext, as demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named "javascript:alert('XSS!')."

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.10 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
6.10
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.23.11 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.25.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.25.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.25.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.25.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.26.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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