Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 6, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2021-42043
CVE-2021-42043
Description
An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The suggestion text (a parameter to mediasearch-did-you-mean) was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the intitle: search operator within the query.
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Affected products
3- MediaWiki/MediaSearchdescription
- Range: <=1.36.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/If64eb5842237c92290d07ebc3fe14710d9de3fc2mitrex_refsource_MISC
- phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291600mitrex_refsource_MISC
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