CVE-2015-8622 Information

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12 1.24.x before 1.24.5 1.25.x before 1.25.4 and 1.26.x before 1.26.1 when is configured with a relative URL allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext as demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named \javascript:alert(‘XSS!’).\

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7 https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117899

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.1