MediaWiki SemanticForms XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6731)

MediaWiki SemanticForms XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6731)
MediaWiki SemanticForms XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6731)

Release date:
Updated on: 2015-09-02

Affected Systems:

MediaWiki <1.25.2
MediaWiki <1.24.3
MediaWiki <1.23.10

Description:

CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2015-6731

MediaWiki is a famous wiki program running in the PHP + MySQL environment.

Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities exist in the SemanticForms extension of MediaWiki. Remote attackers can use the section _ *, template _ *, label _ *, new_template, target, and alt_form parameters, inject Web scripts or HTML in Special: CreateForm or Special: FormEdit.

<* Source: MediaWiki
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Suggestion:

Vendor patch:

MediaWiki
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103391

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