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CVE-2024-34500

MEDIUM

6.1

Description

An issue was discovered in the UnlinkedWikibase extension in MediaWiki before 1.39.6, 1.40.x before 1.40.2, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. XSS can occur through an interface message. Error messages (in the $err var) are not escaped before being passed to Html::rawElement() in the getError() function in the Hooks class.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.1

SeverityMEDIUM

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published5/5/2024

Last Modified11/4/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:fedoramediawiki:mediawiki

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

References

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UnlinkedWikibase/+/1002175(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FU2FGUXXK6TMV6R52VRECLC6XCSQQISY/(cve@mitre.org)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357203(cve@mitre.org)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UnlinkedWikibase/+/1002175(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FU2FGUXXK6TMV6R52VRECLC6XCSQQISY/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FU2FGUXXK6TMV6R52VRECLC6XCSQQISY/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357203(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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