CVE-2014-2853: XSS

Published Apr 28, 2014
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Updated

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.

Other sources

The MediaWiki 1.22.6 and 1.21.9 releases fix a cross-site scripting issue. Viewing a malicious page with action=info could lead to arbitrary web script execution in the context of the victim's session.

This issue does not appear to affect any version in EPEL.

References:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-April/000149.html https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showbug.cgi?id=63251 https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-core/commit/0b695ae09aada343ab59be4a3c9963995a1143b6

— Red Hat

Affected Software

197 affected componentsFixes available
redhat/mediawiki<1.21.9
1.21.9
redhat/mediawiki<1.22.6
1.22.6
composer/mediawiki/core>=1.22.0<1.22.6
1.22.6
composer/mediawiki/core<1.21.9
1.21.9
MediaWiki MediaWiki<=1.21.8
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.1.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.2.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.2.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.2.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.2.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.2.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.2.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.2.6
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.6
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.7
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.8
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.9
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.10
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.11
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.12
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.13
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.14
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.3.15
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4-beta1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4-beta2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4-beta3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4-beta4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4-beta5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4-beta6
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.6
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.7
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.8
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.9
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.10
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.11
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.12
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.13
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.4.14
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5-alpha1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5-alpha2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5-beta1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5-beta2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5-beta3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5-beta4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5-rc2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5-rc3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5-rc4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5.6
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5.7
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.5.8
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.6
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.7
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.8
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.9
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.10
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.11
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.6.12
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.7.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.7.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.7.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.7.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.8.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.8.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.8.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.8.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.8.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.8.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.9.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.9.0-rc2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.9.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.9.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.9.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.9.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.9.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.9.6
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.10.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.10.0-rc1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.10.0-rc2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.10.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.10.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.10.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.10.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.11
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.11.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.11.0-rc1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.11.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.11.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.12.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.12.0-rc1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.12.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.12.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.12.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.12.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.13.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.13.0-rc1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.13.0-rc2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.13.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.13.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.13.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.13.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.14.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.14.0-rc1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.14.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.15.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.15.0-rc1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.15.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.15.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.15.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.15.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.15.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.16.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.16.0-beta1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.16.0-beta2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.16.0-beta3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.16.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.16.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.17
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.17-beta_1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.17.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.17.0-rc1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.17.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.17.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.17.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.17.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.18
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.18-beta_1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.18.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.18.0-rc1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.18.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.18.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.18.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19-beta_1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19-beta_2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.6
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.7
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.8
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.9
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.10
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.11
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.12
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.13
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.19.14
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.20
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.20.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.20.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.20.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.20.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.20.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.20.6
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.20.7
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.20.8
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.21
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.21.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.21.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.21.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.21.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.21.5
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.21.6
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.21.7
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.22.0
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.22.1
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.22.2
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.22.3
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.22.4
MediaWiki MediaWiki=1.22.5

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade redhat/mediawiki to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.21.9
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade redhat/mediawiki to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.22.6
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade composer/mediawiki/core to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.22.6
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade composer/mediawiki/core to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.21.9
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade mediawiki-core to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.22.6
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade mediawiki-core to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 1.21.9

Event History

Apr 29, 2014
CVE Published
via MITRE·06:00 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·06:00 PM
Description
May 17, 2022
Advisory Published
via GitHub·04:07 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is the severity of CVE-2014-2853?

CVE-2014-2853 has been classified with a moderate severity rating due to its cross-site scripting vulnerability.

2

How do I fix CVE-2014-2853?

To fix CVE-2014-2853, you need to upgrade MediaWiki to version 1.21.9 or 1.22.6 or later.

3

Which versions of MediaWiki are affected by CVE-2014-2853?

CVE-2014-2853 affects all MediaWiki versions prior to 1.21.9 and all 1.22.x versions before 1.22.6.

4

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2014-2853?

CVE-2014-2853 is classified as a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.

5

Who can be impacted by CVE-2014-2853?

Remote attackers can exploit CVE-2014-2853 to inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML into affected MediaWiki installations.

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