VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-8808

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Published 2017-11-15 · 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

MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 has XSS when the $wgShowExceptionDetails setting is false and the browser sends non-standard URL escaping.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.29.2-1
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.27.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.27.4-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.27.4-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.27.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.27.4-1
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mediawikimediawiki{"endIncluding":"1.27.3"}
mediawikimediawiki1.28.0
mediawikimediawiki1.28.1
mediawikimediawiki1.28.2
mediawikimediawiki1.29.0
mediawikimediawiki1.29.1

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.