CVE-2014-2242 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2014-2242

includes/upload/UploadBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6,...

Vulnerability Description

includes/upload/UploadBase.php in MediaWiki before 1.19.12, 1.20.x and 1.21.x before 1.21.6, and 1.22.x before 1.22.3 does not prevent use of invalid namespaces in SVG files, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an SVG upload, as demonstrated by use of a W3C XHTML namespace in conjunction with an IFRAME element.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

mediawiki
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.1.0, 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.10.4, 1.11, 1.11.0, 1.11.1, 1.11.2, 1.12.0, 1.12.1, 1.12.2, 1.12.3, 1.12.4, 1.13.0, 1.13.1, 1.13.2, 1.13.3, 1.13.4, 1.14.0, 1.14.1, 1.15.0, 1.15.1, 1.15.2, 1.15.3, 1.15.4, 1.15.5, 1.16.0, 1.16.1, 1.16.2, 1.17, 1.17.0, 1.17.1, 1.17.2, 1.17.3, 1.17.4, 1.18, 1.18.0, 1.18.1, 1.18.2, 1.18.3, 1.19, 1.19.0, 1.19.1, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 1.19.4, 1.19.5, 1.19.6, 1.19.7, 1.19.8, 1.19.9, 1.19.10, 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.20.7, 1.20.8, 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.22.0, 1.22.1, 1.22.2

Timeline

Official Publish: March 2nd, 2014
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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