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CVE-2016-6333
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CSS user subpage preview feature in MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and…
Medium6.1EPSS 1.0%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CSS user subpage preview feature in MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the edit box in Special:MyPage/common.css.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 37% 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 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (4)
- [MediaWiki-announce] 20160823 Security Release - 1.27.1, 1.26.4, 1.23.15 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133147 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 98053 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- 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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