CVE-2015-8622

Severity Score

6.1

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before 1.24.5, 1.25.x before 1.25.4, and 1.26.x before 1.26.1, when is configured with a relative URL, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via wikitext, as demonstrated by a wikilink to a page named "javascript:alert('XSS!')."

Vulnerabilidad de secuencias de comandos en sitios cruzados (XSS) en MediaWiki en versiones anteriores a 1.23.12, 1.24.x en versiones anteriores a 1.24.5, 1.25.x en versiones anteriores a 1.25.4 y 1.26.x en versiones anteriores a 1.26.1, cuando se configura con una URL relativa, permite a usuarios remotos autenticados inyectar secuencias de comandos web o HTML arbitrario a través de wikitext, como demuestra un wikilink a una página llamada "javascript:alert('XSS!')".

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2015-12-23 CVE Reserved
2017-03-23 CVE Published
2023-03-07 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/8	2017-03-27
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/7	2017-03-27
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-December/000186.html	2017-03-27
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117899	2017-03-27

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				<= 1.23.11 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version " <= 1.23.11"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				1.24.0 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version "1.24.0"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				1.24.1 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version "1.24.1"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				1.24.2 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version "1.24.2"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				1.24.3 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version "1.24.3"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				1.24.4 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version "1.24.4"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				1.25.0 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version "1.25.0"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				1.25.1 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version "1.25.1"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				1.25.2 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version "1.25.2"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				1.25.3 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version "1.25.3"		-		Affected
Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki"		Mediawiki Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki"				1.26.0 Search vendor "Mediawiki" for product "Mediawiki" and version "1.26.0"		-		Affected