CVE-2015-8622

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.1
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1, when is configured with a relative URL, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext, as demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named "javascript:alert('XSS!')."
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2015-8622
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-03-23T20:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-03-27T13:46:14
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-79 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.23.11
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.24.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.25.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.25.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.25.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.25.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.26.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • LOW
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 6.1
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 2.7
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117899 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html Patch Release Notes Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8 Mailing List Third Party Advisory Patch
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8622
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8622
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:46:35 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 15:04:33 2017-03-23T20:59Z 2017-03-23T20:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 15:04:33 2017-03-27T13:46:14 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 15:04:33 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated