CVE-2021-42043

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-42043
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42043.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-42043
Aliases
Published
2021-10-06T21:15:07.337Z
Modified
2026-07-09T00:37:21.084759Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The suggestion text (a parameter to mediasearch-did-you-mean) was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the intitle: search operator within the query.

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
f65f9d6971578b301ef9fc915a729e6a13266a5e
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.36.2"
        }
    ]
}

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
Other
test-hashar-for-ci

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42043.json"