XSS in MediaWiki

CVE-2012-2698

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the outputPage function in includes/SkinTemplate.php in MediaWiki before 1.17.5, 1.18.x before 1.18.4, and 1.19.x before 1.19.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the uselang parameter to index.php/Main_page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.049 (91.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Mediawiki — versions 1.18, 1.18.0, 1.18.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References