CVE-2021-42047
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-10-06 20:48
Modified
2024-08-04 03:22
Severity ?
Summary
An issue was discovered in the Growth extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. On any Wiki with the Mentor Dashboard feature enabled, users can login with a mentor account and trigger an XSS payload (such as alert) via Growthexperiments-mentor-dashboard-mentee-overview-no-js-fallback.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/720088Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289063Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments/+/720088Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289063Patch, Vendor Advisory
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