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CVE-2015-2941

MEDIUMEPSS 80th pctl
4.3
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid parameter in a wddx format request to api.php, which is not properly handled in an error message, related to unsafe calls to wddx_serialize_value.

How to fix

Remediation Available
mediawikiDebian
Fixed in:1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3CVE-2015-2941
Fixed in:1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3CVE-2015-2941
Fixed in:1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3CVE-2015-2941
Fixed in:1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3CVE-2015-2941

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

2.11%probability of exploitation in 30 days
80thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 80% of all known CVEs.

References

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