Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-34912
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
LOW Availability impact
NONE Summary
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.37.3 and 1.38.x before 1.38.1. The contributions-title, used on Special:Contributions, is used as page title without escaping. Hence, in a non-default configuration where a username contains HTML entities, it won't be escaped.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7N5ZBWLNNPZKFK7Q4KEHGCJ2YELQEUJP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7N5ZBWLNNPZKFK7Q4KEHGCJ2YELQEUJP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKKOQXPYLMBSEVDHFS32BPBR3ZQJKY5B/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKKOQXPYLMBSEVDHFS32BPBR3ZQJKY5B/
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308473
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308473
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246