CVE-2014-2244 Information

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the formatHTML function in includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6 and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string located after http:// in the text parameter to api.php.

Reference

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-February/000141.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/28/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/01/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65906 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071139 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61362 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r//q/Idf985e4e69c2f11778a8a90503914678441cb3fbnz