CVE-2021-42043

An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2

published October 6, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The suggestion text (a parameter to mediasearch-did-you-mean) was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the intitle: search operator within the query.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00750 · 54.5th percentile
Published
2021-10-06T20:28Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 OCT 20:28Z
    An issue was discovered in Special:MediaSearch in the MediaSearch extension in MediaWiki through 1.36.2
    cvelistv5