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CVE-2012-2698
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the outputPage function in includes/SkinTemplate.php in MediaWiki before 1.17.5, 1.18.x before…
Medium4.3EPSS 4.9%
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- Updated
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- redhat
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the outputPage function in includes/SkinTemplate.php in MediaWiki before 1.17.5, 1.18.x before 1.18.4, and 1.19.x before 1.19.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the uselang parameter to index.php/Main_page.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.9% · top 7.9% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (13)
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20120613 MediaWiki security release 1.17.5 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.18 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 82983 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20120613 MediaWiki security release 1.18.4 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 49484 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36938 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1027179 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.19 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- mediawiki-index-uselang-xss(76311) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.17 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/7979/1/includes/SkinTemplate.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120613 Re: CVE request: XSS in uselang http parameter (mediawiki) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20120613 MediaWiki security release 1.19.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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