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CVE-2014-2853
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/actions/InfoAction.php in MediaWiki before 1.21.9 and 1.22.x before 1.22.6 allows…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.4%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/actions/InfoAction.php in MediaWiki before 1.21.9 and 1.22.x before 1.22.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sort key in an info action.
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)
- 2.4% · top 16% 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
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmediawiki/coreGHSA-6h86-9r5g-f2h5 (opens in a new tab)
References (9)
- 67068 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1030161 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 58262 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/commit/0b695ae09aada343ab59be4a3c9963995a1143b6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20140424 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.22.6 and 1.21.9 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22#Changes_since_1.22.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63251 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21#Changes_since_1.21.8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091967 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6h86-9r5g-f2h5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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