CVE-2014-9480

medium

Description

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.

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T69180

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-December/000173.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2014-9299

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/13

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/21/2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-01-16

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N