CVE-2021-42042

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in SpecialEditGrowthConfig in the GrowthExperiments extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The growthexperiments-edit-config-error-invalid-title MediaWiki message was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript.

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290692

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ibeb13d032ca044af53f6b2334e27b6b97b6f4e9f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-10-06

Updated: 2021-10-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.8

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

Severity: Medium