CVE-2016-6334

medium

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Parser::replaceInternalLinks2 method in MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving replacement of percent encoding in unclosed internal links.

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137264

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98057

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-04-20

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:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium