CVE-2015-8622 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2015-8622

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MediaWiki before 1.23.12, 1.24.x before...

Vulnerability Description

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!')."

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

mediawiki
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.24.0, 1.24.1, 1.24.2, 1.24.3, 1.24.4, 1.25.0, 1.25.1, 1.25.2, 1.25.3, 1.26.0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 23rd, 2017
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.