Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM,…

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid parameter in a wddx format request to api.php, which is not properly handled in an error message, related to unsafe calls to wddx_serialize_value.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• GLSA-201510-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85851 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 73477 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150407 Re: CVE request: MediaWiki 1.24.2/1.23.9/1.19.24 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150331 CVE request: MediaWiki 1.24.2/1.23.9/1.19.24 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [MediaWiki-announce] 20150331 MediaWiki Security and Maintenance Releases: 1.19.24, 1.23.9, and 1.24.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 05:32 UTC.