CVE-2014-2853

N/A Unknown

Published: April 29, 2014 Modified: May 06, 2026

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in includes/actions/InfoAction.php in MediaWiki before 1.21.9 and 1.22.x before 1.22.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sort key in an info action.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-April/000149.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/58262

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67068

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030161

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091967

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63251

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/commit/0b695ae09aada343ab59be4a3c9963995a1143b6

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.21#Changes_since_1.21.8

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.22#Changes_since_1.22.5

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-April/000149.html