CVE-2024-23179

Published Jan 12, 2024

Last updated 12 days ago

Overview

Description
An issue was discovered in the GlobalBlocking extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. For a Special:GlobalBlock?uselang=x-xss URI, i18n-based XSS can occur via the parentheses message. This affects subtitle links in buildSubtitleLinks.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

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

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-79
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
CWE-79

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations