CVE-2024-23179

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-23179
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-23179.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-23179
Aliases
Published
2024-01-12T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-07-08T06:41:37.431523053Z
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 the GlobalBlocking extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. For a Special:GlobalBlock?uselang=x-xss URI, i18n-based XSS can occur via the parentheses message. This affects subtitle links in buildSubtitleLinks.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/23xxx/CVE-2024-23179.json",
    "cna_assigner": "mitre",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "1.40.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "DESCRIPTION"
        }
    ]
}
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
Fixed
b886c60c6af24561c805d1d7a2dd6cc0618a53c7
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mediawiki:mediawiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.40.2"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.1.0
1.3.0beta1
1.40.0
1.40.0-rc.0
1.40.1
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-2024-23179.json"