Detections
Analytics

CVE-2017-8814

high

Description

The language converter in MediaWiki before 1.27.4, 1.28.x before 1.28.3, and 1.29.x before 1.29.2 allows attackers to replace text inside tags via a rule definition followed by "a lot of junk."

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4036

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039812

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2017-November/000216.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-11-15

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00652