MediaWiki Widgets XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6737)

MediaWiki Widgets XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6737)
MediaWiki Widgets XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2015-6737)

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-2015-6737

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

MediaWiki's Widgets extension has multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, allowing remote attackers to inject Web scripts or HTML content through base64 encoding.

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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:

Http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/6
Https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2015-August/000179.html
Http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/165193.html
Http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/12/6

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