Medium severity · published Oct 26, 2017
CVE-2012-4378
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.18.5 and 1.19.x before 1.19.2, when unspecified JavaScript gadgets are used, allow remote attackers to…
6.1
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.18.5 and 1.19.x before 1.19.2, when unspecified JavaScript gadgets are used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the userlang parameter to w/index.php.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ME
Mediawiki · Mediawiki
through 1.18.4; 1.19.0; 1.19.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4378
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4378
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/10
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/6
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686330
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853417
Patch
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2012-August/000119.html
Issue Tracking
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39587
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