UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2941

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2941
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2941.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2941
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:43:11Z
Published
2015-04-13T14:59:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:11:28.131074Z
Severity
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid parameter in a wddx format request to api.php, which is not properly handled in an error message, related to unsafe calls to wddxserializevalue.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / mediawiki

Package

Name
mediawiki
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/mediawiki@1:1.27.4-3?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.27.4-3

Affected versions

1:1.*
1:1.27.3-1
1:1.27.4-1
1:1.27.4-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "mediawiki",
            "binary_version": "1:1.27.4-3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "mediawiki-classes",
            "binary_version": "1:1.27.4-3"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2941.json"