CVE-2015-8622

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1, when is configured with a relative URL, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext, as demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named "javascript:alert('XSS!')."

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117899

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3