CVE-2021-42043

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
06/10/2021
Last modified:
14/10/2021

Description

An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The suggestion text (a parameter to mediasearch-did-you-mean) was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the intitle: search operator within the query.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.36.2 (including)