Vulnerability · Published Oct 6, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-42041
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 62% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 37.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
An issue was discovered in CentralAuth in MediaWiki through 1.36.2. The rightsnone MediaWiki message was not being properly sanitized and allowed for the injection and execution of HTML and JavaScript via the setchange log.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291696 x_refsource_MISC
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I7aeaa6e4de5ccaa5eeb6bf4fb00c96b01d5fea35 x_refsource_MISC