CVE-2022-34912

Description

An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.37.3 and 1.38.x before 1.38.1. The contributions-title, used on Special:Contributions, is used as page title without escaping. Hence, in a non-default configuration where a username contains HTML entities, it wont be escaped.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.1

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.236

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
mediawiki security update(DSA-5246-1) mediawiki_1.35.8-1~deb11u1_all.deb	Linux
mediawiki security update(DSA-5246-1) mediawiki_1.35.13-1~deb11u1_all.deb	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234