CVE-2024-34500
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
05/05/2024
Last modified:
11/06/2025
Description
An issue was discovered in the UnlinkedWikibase extension in MediaWiki before 1.39.6, 1.40.x before 1.40.2, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. XSS can occur through an interface message. Error messages (in the $err var) are not escaped before being passed to Html::rawElement() in the getError() function in the Hooks class.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.10
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
CPE | From | Up to |
---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 1.39.6 (excluding) | |
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 1.40.0 (including) | 1.40.2 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 1.41.0 (including) | 1.41.1 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:40:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UnlinkedWikibase/+/1002175
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FU2FGUXXK6TMV6R52VRECLC6XCSQQISY/
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357203
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UnlinkedWikibase/+/1002175
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FU2FGUXXK6TMV6R52VRECLC6XCSQQISY/
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357203