Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 12, 2024· Updated Sep 25, 2024

CVE-2024-23179

Description

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.

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Affected products

MediaWiki/GlobalBlockingdescription
MediaWiki/GlobalBlockingllm-create
Range: <1.40.2
osv-coords
pkg:bitnami/mediawiki
Range: < 1.41.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce%40lists.wikimedia.org/message/TDBUBCCOQJUT4SCHJNPHKQNPBUUETY52/mitre
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347746mitre

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