VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-2941

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Published 2015-04-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
debian debiansidfixed1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki{"endIncluding":"1.19.23"}
mediawikimediawiki1.20
mediawikimediawiki1.20.1
mediawikimediawiki1.20.2
mediawikimediawiki1.20.3
mediawikimediawiki1.20.4
mediawikimediawiki1.20.5
mediawikimediawiki1.20.6
mediawikimediawiki1.20.7
mediawikimediawiki1.20.8
mediawikimediawiki1.21
mediawikimediawiki1.21.1
mediawikimediawiki1.21.2
mediawikimediawiki1.21.3
mediawikimediawiki1.21.4
mediawikimediawiki1.21.5
mediawikimediawiki1.21.6
mediawikimediawiki1.21.7
mediawikimediawiki1.21.8
mediawikimediawiki1.21.9
mediawikimediawiki1.21.10
mediawikimediawiki1.21.11
mediawikimediawiki1.22.0
mediawikimediawiki1.22.1
mediawikimediawiki1.22.2
mediawikimediawiki1.22.3
mediawikimediawiki1.22.4
mediawikimediawiki1.22.5
mediawikimediawiki1.22.6
mediawikimediawiki1.22.7
mediawikimediawiki1.22.8
mediawikimediawiki1.22.9
mediawikimediawiki1.22.10
mediawikimediawiki1.22.11
mediawikimediawiki1.22.12
mediawikimediawiki1.22.13
mediawikimediawiki1.22.14
mediawikimediawiki1.22.15
mediawikimediawiki1.23.0
mediawikimediawiki1.23.1
mediawikimediawiki1.23.2
mediawikimediawiki1.23.3
mediawikimediawiki1.23.4
mediawikimediawiki1.23.5
mediawikimediawiki1.23.6
mediawikimediawiki1.23.7
mediawikimediawiki1.23.8
mediawikimediawiki1.24.0
mediawikimediawiki1.24.1

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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