Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Jul 2, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-34912
CVE-2022-34912
Description
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.37.3 and 1.38.x before 1.38.1. The contributions-title, used on Special:Contributions, is used as page title without escaping. Hence, in a non-default configuration where a username contains HTML entities, it won't be escaped.
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Affected products
9- Range: <1.37.3, 1.38.0
cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <1.37.3
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.38.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.38.0:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:1.38.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
6- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308473nvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7N5ZBWLNNPZKFK7Q4KEHGCJ2YELQEUJP/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKKOQXPYLMBSEVDHFS32BPBR3ZQJKY5B/nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24nvd
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