CVE-2021-42042

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42042
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42042.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-42042
Aliases
Published
2021-10-06T21:15:07Z
Modified
2025-01-14T10:02:56.678584Z
Severity
  • 4.8 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in SpecialEditGrowthConfig in the GrowthExperiments extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The growthexperiments-edit-config-error-invalid-title MediaWiki message was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.0
1.3.0beta1
1.36.0
1.36.0-rc.0
1.36.1
1.36.2
1.5.0alpha1
1.5.0alpha2
1.5.0beta1
1.5.0beta2
1.5.0beta3
1.5.0beta4
1.6.0