CVE-2024-34500
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.005 · 41 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
An issue was discovered in the UnlinkedWikibase extension in MediaWiki before 1.39.6, 1.40.x before 1.40.2, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. XSS can occur through an interface message. Error messages (in the $err var) are not escaped before being passed to Html::rawElement() in the getError() function in the Hooks class.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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weaknesses
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affected products (11)
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advisories (3)
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- WID-SEC-W-2024-1022MediaWiki: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-05-05csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in MediaWiki ausnutzen, um einen Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriff zu starten, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu verursachen oder Dateien zu manipulieren.
- GHSA-wcx3-63mm-h8x6MediaWiki UnlinkedWikibase Cross-site Scripting vulnerability2024-05-05ghsa · osvUS
An issue was discovered in the UnlinkedWikibase extension in MediaWiki before 1.42.0. XSS can occur through an interface message. Error messages (in the $err var) are not escaped before being passed to Html::rawElement() in the getError() function in the Hooks class.
- BIT-mediawiki-2024-345002025-06-12vendor · osvUS
An issue was discovered in the UnlinkedWikibase extension in MediaWiki before 1.39.6, 1.40.x before 1.40.2, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. XSS can occur through an interface message. Error messages (in the $err var) are not escaped before being passed to Html::rawElement() in the getError() function in the Hooks class.
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references (11)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-34500cnnvd
- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2024-34500/cnnvd
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UnlinkedWikibase/+/1002175cnnvd
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357203cnnvd
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UnlinkedWikibase/+/1002175enisa_euvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FU2FGUXXK6TMV6R52VRECLC6XCSQQISY/enisa_euvd
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357203enisa_euvd
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/UnlinkedWikibase/+/1002175PatchVendor Advisorynvd
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