cve-2021-44855
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-26 00:00
Modified
2025-04-14 15:52
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
An issue was discovered in MediaWiki before 1.35.5, 1.36.x before 1.36.3, and 1.37.x before 1.37.1. There is Blind Stored XSS via a URL to the Upload Image feature.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293589Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293589Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-24
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