CVE-2024-23179

An issue was discovered in the GlobalBlocking extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2

Medium · published January 12, 2024

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
36.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in the GlobalBlocking extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2. For a Special:GlobalBlock?uselang=x-xss URI, i18n-based XSS can occur via the parentheses message. This affects subtitle links in buildSubtitleLinks.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00429 · 36.1th percentile
Published
2024-01-12T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JAN 00:00Z
    An issue was discovered in the GlobalBlocking extension in MediaWiki before 1.40.2
    cvelistv5