VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8622

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Published 2017-03-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.1

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!')."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
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 debianbookwormfixed1:1.25.5-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.25.5-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.25.5-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.25.5-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.25.5-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki{"endIncluding":"1.23.11"}
mediawikimediawiki1.24.0
mediawikimediawiki1.24.1
mediawikimediawiki1.24.2
mediawikimediawiki1.24.3
mediawikimediawiki1.24.4
mediawikimediawiki1.25.0
mediawikimediawiki1.25.1
mediawikimediawiki1.25.2
mediawikimediawiki1.25.3
mediawikimediawiki1.26.0

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.