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A vulnerability was found in MediaWiki 1.24.0 (Content Management System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Hovercards extension for MediaWiki allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to text extracts.

The weakness was presented 01/16/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at phabricator.wikimedia.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-9480 since 01/03/2015. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 81227 (GLSA-201502-04 : MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 4 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (81227). See 68472, 68504, 73687 and 73686 for similar entries.

Productinfo

Type

• Content Management System

Name

• MediaWiki

Version

• 1.24.0

License

• open-source

CPE 2.3info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.4

VulDB Base Score: 9.8
VulDB Temp Score: 9.4
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 81227
Nessus Name: GLSA-201502-04 : MediaWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities
Nessus File: 🔍
Nessus Risk: 🔍
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OpenVAS ID: 801900
OpenVAS Name: MediaWiki Hovercards extension Cross-site scripting Vulnerability - Jan15
OpenVAS File: 🔍
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

01/03/2015 🔍
01/16/2015 +13 days 🔍
01/16/2015 +0 days 🔍
02/07/2015 +22 days 🔍
02/09/2015 +2 days 🔍
03/27/2015 +46 days 🔍
04/02/2018 +1102 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: mediawiki.org

Advisory: phabricator.wikimedia.org
Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2014-9480 (🔍)
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/27/2015 14:56
Updated: 04/02/2018 11:44
Changes: 03/27/2015 14:56 (42), 04/02/2018 11:44 (20)
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