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FKIE_CVE-2026-22711

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-07 19:16 - Updated: 2026-07-21 19:10

Severity

6.9 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

Summary

Improper neutralization of alternate XSS syntax vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Wikilove Extension allows Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).The issue has been remediated on the `master` branch, and in the release branches for MediaWiki versions 1.43, 1.44, and 1.45.

References

	URL	Tags
	c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc	https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Iab86209478a044504f5a6aea0d8c3d14f21c48b3
	c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416502

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-22711 (GCVE-0-2026-22711)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-07 18:39 – Updated: 2026-04-08 22:02

Title

Stored XSS through system messages in WikiLove

Summary

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-04-07 20:34 UTC

CWE

CWE-87 - Improper neutralization of alternate XSS syntax

Assigner

wikimedia-foundation mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416502
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Iab86209478a0445…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
The Wikimedia Foundation	Mediawiki - Wikilove Extension	Unaffected: 1.43 Unaffected: 1.44 Unaffected: 1.45 Affected: 0 , < 1.43 (custom)

Credits

SomeRandomDeveloper

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