VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-6453

high
Published 2014-05-12 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

MediaWiki before 1.19.10, 1.2x before 1.21.4, and 1.22.x before 1.22.1 does not properly sanitize SVG files, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via invalid XML.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6453

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-January/000138.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.19.10+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.19.10+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.19.10+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.19.10+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.19.10+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki1.22.0
mediawikimediawiki1.21
mediawikimediawiki1.21.1
mediawikimediawiki1.21.2
mediawikimediawiki1.21.3
mediawikimediawiki{"endIncluding":"1.19.9"}
mediawikimediawiki1.19
mediawikimediawiki1.19.0
mediawikimediawiki1.19.1
mediawikimediawiki1.19.2
mediawikimediawiki1.19.3
mediawikimediawiki1.19.4
mediawikimediawiki1.19.5
mediawikimediawiki1.19.6
mediawikimediawiki1.19.7
mediawikimediawiki1.19.8

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.