What is CVE-2024-23179?

CVE-2024-23179 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-01-12.

How severe is CVE-2024-23179?

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

XSS in Mediawiki

CVE-2024-23179

An issue was discovered in the GlobalBlocking extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. For a Special:GlobalBlock?uselang=x-xss URI, i18n-based XSS can occur via the parentheses message. This affects subtitle links in buildSubtitleLinks.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (34.3th 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 (Patch, Release Notes, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-23179?: CVE-2024-23179 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mediawiki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-01-12.
How severe is CVE-2024-23179?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.