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CVE-2024-23179

Date: January 12, 2024

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.

Language: PHP

Severity Score

Related Resources (4)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347746
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23179
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/mediawiki-announce%40lists.wikimedia.org/message/TDBUBCCOQJUT4SCHJNPHKQNPBUUETY52/
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2024-23179

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE-79

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): NONE

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