CVE-2022-21710
Published Jan 24, 2022
Last updated 3 years ago
Overview
- Description
- ShortDescription is a MediaWiki extension that provides local short description support. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in versions prior to 2.3.4. On a wiki that has the ShortDescription enabled, XSS can be triggered on any page or the page with the action=info parameter, which displays the shortdesc property. This is achieved using the wikitext `{{SHORTDESC:<img src=x onerror=alert()>}}`. This issue has a patch in version 2.3.4.
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.1
- Impact score
- 2.7
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.3
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:shortdescription:*:*:*:*:*:mediawiki:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "161BDB24-4950-4933-AEB4-E6B208EA1521",
"versionEndExcluding": "2.3.4"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]