CVE-2022-28202

medium

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

An XSS issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.6, 1.36.x before 1.36.4, and 1.37.x before 1.37.2. The widthheight, widthheightpage, and nbytes properties of messages are not escaped when used in galleries or Special:RevisionDelete.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-28202

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`1.37.2-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:1.35.6-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:1.35.8-1~deb11u1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:1.35.6-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:1.35.6-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:1.35.6-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-28202

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