XSS in Gentoo Linux
CVE-2013-2031
MediaWiki before 1.19.6 and 1.20.x before 1.20.5 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated by a CDATA section containing valid UTF-7 encoded sequences in a SVG file, which is then incorrectly interpreted as UTF-8 by Chrome and Firefox.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.025 (84.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Gentoo Linux
- MediaWiki — versions 1.1.0, 1.10.0, 1.10.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105825.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/57472 (third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi
- secunia.com/advisories/55433 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2891 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106293.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105784.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/59594 (vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-21.xml (vendor-advisory)
- lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-April/000129.html (mailing-list, Patch)