What is CVE-2023-37251?

CVE-2023-37251 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-06-29.

How severe is CVE-2023-37251?

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

XSS in Mediawiki

CVE-2023-37251

An issue was discovered in the GoogleAnalyticsMetrics extension for MediaWiki through 1.39.3. The googleanalyticstrackurl parser function does not properly escape JavaScript in the onclick handler and does not prevent use of javascript: URLs.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (32.9th 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
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-37251?: CVE-2023-37251 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-06-29.
How severe is CVE-2023-37251?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.