What is CVE-2019-19708?

CVE-2019-19708 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki Visual Editor, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-12-11.

How severe is CVE-2019-19708?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Mediawiki Visual Editor

CVE-2019-19708

The VisualEditor extension through 1.34 for MediaWiki allows XSS via pasted content containing an element with a data-ve-clipboard-key attribute.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (50.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Mediawiki Visual_editor
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-19708?: CVE-2019-19708 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki Visual Editor, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-12-11.
How severe is CVE-2019-19708?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.