CVE-2014-3966
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-06-06 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 10:57
Severity ?
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Special:PasswordReset in MediaWiki before 1.19.16, 1.21.x before 1.21.10, and 1.22.x before 1.22.7, when wgRawHtml is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an invalid username.
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