CVE-2014-9478 (GCVE-0-2014-9478)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-01-16 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 13:47
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the preview in the ExpandTemplates extension for MediaWiki, when $wgRawHTML is set to true, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the wpInput parameter to the Special:ExpandTemplates page.
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