CVE-2022-34911
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-07-02 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 09:22
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.7, 1.36.x and 1.37.x before 1.37.3, and 1.38.x before 1.38.1. XSS can occur in configurations that allow a JavaScript payload in a username. After account creation, when it sets the page title to "Welcome" followed by the username, the username is not escaped: SpecialCreateAccount::successfulAction() calls ::showSuccessPage() with a message as second parameter, and OutputPage::setPageTitle() uses text().
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7N5ZBWLNNPZKFK7Q4KEHGCJ2YELQEUJP/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKKOQXPYLMBSEVDHFS32BPBR3ZQJKY5B/
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308471Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7N5ZBWLNNPZKFK7Q4KEHGCJ2YELQEUJP/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKKOQXPYLMBSEVDHFS32BPBR3ZQJKY5B/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308471Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5246Third Party Advisory
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