CVE-2021-42041
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-10-06 20:28
Modified
2024-08-04 03:22
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in CentralAuth in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The rightsnone MediaWiki message was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the setchange log.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I7aeaa6e4de5ccaa5eeb6bf4fb00c96b01d5fea35Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291696Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I7aeaa6e4de5ccaa5eeb6bf4fb00c96b01d5fea35Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291696Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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