CVE-2021-45472

medium

Description

In MediaWiki through 1.37, XSS can occur in Wikibase because an external identifier property can have a URL format that includes a $1 formatter substitution marker, and the javascript: URL scheme (among others) can be used.

References

Advisories

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297570

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z7JNQA53K675TQBBJPZRAG5ZT6XES3IS/

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I37ece1dfdc80d38055067c9c4fa73ba591acd8bd

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-24

Updated: 2024-11-21

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