CVE-2021-42047

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 Medium 5.4

Description

An issue was discovered in the Growth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. On any Wiki with the Mentor Dashboard feature enabled, users can login with a mentor account and trigger an XSS payload (such as alert) via Growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-no-js-fallback.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2021-42047

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2022-09-29T03:15:14

Last Modified Date
2022-09-30T16:37:15

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		1.36.2

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
REQUIRED

Scope
CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
LOW

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
5.4

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
2.3

Impact Score
2.7

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289063
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-42047
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/720088

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42047
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-42047

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-09-29 04:00:07				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-07 05:12:09	2022-09-29T03:15Z	2022-09-29T03:15:14	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-07 05:12:09		2022-09-30T16:37:15	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-07 05:12:09		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated