Vulnerability CVE-2021-46150


Published: 2022-01-10

Description:
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. Special:CheckUserLog allows CheckUser XSS because of date mishandling, as demonstrated by an XSS payload in MediaWiki:October.

Type:

CWE-79

(Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.5/10
2.9/10
6.8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Mediawiki -> Mediawiki 

 References:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser/+/79c2c49a18f96b159258958feca90fce964c350a
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292795

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