CVE-2021-42043

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
2021-10-06T21:15:07Z
Modified
2025-01-14T10:02:45.204893Z
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

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