XSS in MediaWiki

CVE-2014-2244

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the formatHTML function in includes/api/ApiFormatBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string located after http:// in the text parameter to api.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.021 (79.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Mediawiki — versions 1.1.0, 1.10.0, 1.10.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References